Jon Jones legal team could be positioning for plea deal in felony hit-and-run case

The former UFC champion's legal team could be positioning him for a plea deal in Bernalillo County Second Judicial District Court in his felony hit-and-run case, MMA Fighting has learned.

Jones' case was transferred from Metropolitan Court in Albuquerque, N.M., to Second Judicial District Court and assigned to judge Charles Brown on Monday, according to documents obtained by MMA Fighting. The judicial assignment document reads that the case is coming to Brown's court "on the stipulation of the parties for the entry of a pre-indictment plea."

Jones does not have to give a plea unless he is indicted by a grand jury.