Former NFL cornerback Brandon Browner was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday after pleading no contest to attempted murder.
According to TMZ Sports, Browner allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend's La Verne, California, apartment in July where he dragged her and smothered her in her own carpet.
In exchange for charges of robbery, burglary and false imprisonment being dropped, Browner pleaded no contest to attempted murder and willful child endangerment since his ex-girlfriend's two children were present at the time of the incident.
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