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Attorney for Josh Jackson allegedly tried to pay to have charges dropped

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An attorney for Kansas freshman Josh Jackson tried to pay the family of a Jayhawks women's basketball player so she wouldn't press charges stemming from a December incident in which he allegedly damaged the woman's car, according to her father.

Tim Calvert, the father of Kansas sophomore McKenzie Calvert, told the Kansas City Star that Jackson's lawyer told the family "money is no object, within reason" if they would let the altercation go.

"They wanted to pay to make it all go away," Tim Calvert told the newspaper. "But it wouldn't have gone away for my daughter.