John Wall gets community service

This got lost in the shuffle of yesterday evening/night, but it as at least a little good news.

NEWS AND OBSERVER –  John Wall, one of the top high school basketball players in the country, has been placed in a first offender’s program that gives him a chance to have his record expunged of the breaking and entering charge filed against him.

Phillip Cowan, the Wake County assistant district attorney, said the program is available only to individuals having no other criminal record. Under the first offender’s program, the case against Wall will be dismissed if he completes 75 hours of community service, pays court costs and program fees and stays out of trouble for the next six months.

Wall is a 6-foot-4 basketball point guard at Raleigh Word of God. He signed a national letter of intent to play at Kentucky last week.

Mitch Summerfield, a Word of God official, said Wall plans to begin his community service as soon as possible. Summerfield said he did not know what Wall would be doing.

Last week at his press conference announcing his decision to go to Kentucky, Wall apologized and said he would accept whatever punishment he was given.