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Date Posted: 06:31:35 07/31/08 Thu
Author: Varmit
Subject: Sid

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Charges against former rodeo star dropped
Sid Steiner may have been misidentified, prosecutors say.
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Travis County prosecutors said Wednesday that assault charges against former professional world champion steer wrestler Sid Steiner have been dismissed.

Steiner was indicted by a grand jury this month. He was accused of pointing a gun at another driver after a traffic accident in December 2007 near his Northwest Austin home.

The district attorney's office said in a statement that it recently received information indicating that Steiner might have been misidentified.

Prosecutors and Austin police will continue investigating the incident, officials said.

"The review of the incident will determine whether the case will be re-presented to the Grand Jury," the statement said.

Steiner's attorney, Allan Williams, said that when he first learned of the allegations, he had said that Steiner would be found not guilty.

"I am glad that this happened," Williams said. "He has suffered a lot from this accusation that was not true and is not true.

"It is hard to get your reputation back after someone has accused you of something you didn't do," he said.

Steiner is a fourth-generation rodeo performer who cultivated a bad-boy image on the rodeo circuit because he had long hair � sometimes worn in cornrows � tattoos and multiple piercings.

He was the 2002 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association steer wrestling world champion. His great-grandfather, T.C. "Buck" Steiner, has his own wing in the Rodeo Hall of Fame. He used the money that he earned riding bulls to open Capitol Saddlery on Lavaca Street in the 1930 and buy thousands of acres, including Steiner Ranch, much of which is now a subdivision

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His reputation is he's a guy that blind sided a well known saddle bronc rider at a bar in Cheyenne and ran out the back door with his friends and got on his tour bus he used to travel in. Yeah, it would be great for him to gain his reputation back I don't think they will get him in Steiner country.. (NT) -- Hap, 06:41:16 07/31/08 Thu
- The one good thing about it, it will keep the ara's from putting it on their web site. It may already be on there, but at least now there is a defense against the original charges. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:40:18 07/31/08 Thu

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