Giants corner DeAndre Baker submitted a not guilty plea on Monday for all eight charges he faces stemming from an alleged armed robbery in Miramar, Fla., last Wednesday night.
Baker is charged with four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. He is accused of robbing four alleged victims of money and watches at gunpoint and directing one of his accomplices to shoot someone, though that person did not shoot.
Baker, 22, waited until Saturday morning to turn himself in and spent the overnight at the Broward County's main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Judge Michael Davis of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida granted Baker his release on $200,000 bond, or $25,000 per charge, during a Sunday morning first court appearance. Baker posted bail and was released later that day.
Baker's attorney, Bradford Cohen, submitted Baker's not guilty plea on Monday at 4:56 p.m. The filing says Baker demands a trial by jury. It pledges the defense's intent to participate in discovery and also asks the court to require the Office of the State Attorney to comply.
Baker, while no longer in prison, is required to report two times per week by telephone to a designated pretrial services officer. And he is not allowed to leave the state "until further order of the court."
His pretrial release also forbids access to firearms or weapons and contact with any of the alleged victims in the case. And he was required to surrender his concealed weapon permit within 48 hours of his release.
The judge assigned to Baker's case is listed as Judge Mariya Weekes, a former civil litigator who worked as an assistant state attorney in Broward County prosecuting shootings and gun violence prior to her June 2019 swearing in.
Cohen is listed as the only attorney representing Baker.
