Former Husker Maurice Purify will spend a week on house arrest after pleading no contest Tuesday to violating probation.

The 22-year-old started serving the year-long probation in July 2007 for assault, disturbing the peace and hindering arrest May 5, 2007, and a DUI on June 8, 2007.

In a Lancaster County courtroom Tuesday, Deputy County Attorney Eric Miller filed a motion to revoke his probation on an allegation he had been seen drinking alcohol in California.

Purify pleaded no contest.

Judge James Foster sentenced him to a $500 fine, seven days jail beginning Oct. 8, and revoked his license for six months for the DUI charge and $1,050 for the other misdemeanors.

His attorney, Jon Braaten, said he already has applied for house arrest and plans to serve it in Ohio, where he lives now.

“We’re just glad to be done with it,” Braaten said outside the courtroom after Purify paid the $344 in fines he had yet to pay.

Purify had paid the rest previously as part of probation.

Braaten said Purify currently is on the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad, trying to get a spot on the 54-player roster.

“He’s done with probation, he’s done with (these issues in) Nebraska,” the attorney said.

Purify had denied he had been drinking during the California incident, and there was no test of his blood alcohol level.

After Tuesday’s hearing, Braaten said Purify decided to enter the plea to save the court’s time and taxpayer money to bring the California officer to Nebraska for a hearing.

In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dismissed a city case where he was accused of being an inmate of a disorderly house March 8. Police had ticketed him after being called to a loud party in northwest Lincoln.

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