Brandon Aubrey thought being the Cowboys kicker would mean no jury duty. A judge said otherwise

FRISCO, Texas -- Brandon Aubrey was beautiful judge being nan kicker for nan Dallas Cowboys was going to get him retired of assemblage duty.

It's safe to opportunity he was amazed to extremity up serving connected a home unit lawsuit that lasted a week and ended pinch his assemblage sentencing nan suspect to 65 years successful prison.

“Eye-opening, long, frustrating, depressing, proceeding nan story,” Aubrey said Thursday successful an question and reply conducted by a personnel of nan Cowboys' media relations staff. “The communicative was a sad one. I don’t really want to get into each nan specifications of nan story, but it was very depressing and dragged connected longer than anybody expected it to. So, gladsome it’s over.”

Aubrey wasn't successful nan Dallas locker room during nan team's media readiness connected Thursday. A squad staffer emailed a transcript of nan question and reply pinch nan kicker to nan media later successful nan day.

A twelvemonth ago, Aubrey group an NFL grounds arsenic a 28-year-old rookie by making nan first 35 kicks of his career. A grounds streak of 8 consecutive games pinch astatine slightest 1 section extremity of 50 yards aliases longer ended past play successful a 30-24 nonaccomplishment to San Francisco. The Cowboys (3-4) sojourn Atlanta (5-3) connected Sunday.

With Aubrey's anonymity apt blown by that benignant of eventful commencement to his career, he said nan judge told everyone during assemblage action who he was.

Aubrey said he has a sister-in-law who is simply a prosecutor, and she had assured him his personage would disqualify him.

Aubrey, who had postponed his assemblage summons erstwhile but wasn't allowed to do it again, besides thought he had a suitable conflict to coming to nan judge — being astatine nan team's installation to hole for past weekend's crippled successful San Francisco.

The judge acknowledged him by sanction and said he could travel backmost to him connected nan rumor of conflicts, Aubrey said. The adjacent point nan kicker knows, nan judge is saying Aubrey won't person immoderate conflicts because nan tribunal won't beryllium successful convention complete nan weekend.

“I could person been much assertive and astatine that point, everyone knows who I americium there, and I don’t want to sound for illustration I deliberation I’m amended than anyone other aliases that I’m supra nan job,” Aubrey said. “So benignant of sat location softly and didn’t opportunity anything, which was astir apt a mistake. I figured astatine that constituent still, he’s not going to prime me.”

As it turned out, Aubrey had to scramble to get successful his kicking activity during nan week. He didn't get to nan installation until adjacent to sundown Thursday of past week, first fighting nan sunset and really kicking successful nan acheronian for a spell pinch agelong snapper Trent Sieg and his holder, punter Bryan Anger.

Aubrey couldn't footwear successful nan comfortableness — and nether nan lights — of nan team's indoor believe installation because of a precocious schoolhouse game.

“You can’t really spot wherever you’re kicking, and for Bryan successful particular, trying to drawback nan snaps, he had a difficult clip astatine first search nan shot and hitting nan spot,” Aubrey said. “So, it was a batch harder, but really conscionable wanted to get nan limb moving and support nan assemblage caller for crippled day.”

Aubrey wasn't really tested against nan 49ers, making his only field-goal effort from 29 yards and each 3 other points.

A erstwhile Major League Soccer imaginable who played that athletics astatine a Dallas-area precocious schoolhouse and Notre Dame, Aubrey sewage a changeable pinch nan Cowboys past twelvemonth aft they scouted him successful nan USFL.

When he was trying to get nan attraction of pro teams, Aubrey would time off his time occupation and spell consecutive to section fields truthful he could kick. Jury work had him reliving nan experience.

“It reminded maine a batch of my schedule arsenic a package technologist erstwhile I’d activity from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and past spell title down to this area, a section section not excessively acold away, and effort to conflict nan sunset arsenic well,” Aubrey said. “It’s thing I’ve done before.”

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