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Shirley Lewis, the live-in girlfriend of Jazz center Al Jefferson who allegedly attacked him last month, appeared at the Holladay Justice Court Wednesday for a pretrial hearing.
The hearing, however, was continued to February at the request of defense attorney Wally Bugden. He said Lewis wants to complete the counseling she has started and then resolve the case.
Lewis will appear again before Holladay Justice Court Judge Augustus Chin on Feb. 29.
She was arrested and booked into Salt Lake County jail late on Dec. 8 after allegedly hitting and biting the 6-foot-10, 280-pound Jefferson.
According to a probable cause statement, a verbal argument at Jefferson's Cottonwood Heights mansion between Lewis, 38, and Jefferson, 26, escalated to violence when she allegedly hit him and bit him on the back. Two children were present at the time, police say.
She was charged with assault and domestic violence in the presence of a child, both class B misdemeanors.