Despite entering into a diversion agreement, Scott McMichael thinks a jury would have found him innocent of falsifying travel vouchers to the Kansas University Athletic Corp., his lawyer said.
"We think that ultimately he would have been cleared," said Milton Allen Jr., one of the attorney's representing McMichael, former director of the Williams Educational Fund.
Nevertheless, McMichael, 48, wanted to assure his record was kept clean and thus agreed to the diversion, Allen said. The agreement became official Friday after it was signed by Douglas County District Court Judge Mike Malone.
The agreement requires that McMichael agree to the three charges of making a false writing and pay restitution amounting to $3,134.32. That was the sum the KU Public Safety Office and the Douglas County District Attorney's Office said he should pay, Allen said.
McMichael also must pay court and diversion costs, bringing the total amount due to $3,380 over a period of 23 months.
To meet other requirements of the diversion McMichael must:
l Complete a minimum of 50 hours of community service work by Aug. 1.
l Write a letter of apology to the victim or victims by April 1.
The diversion agreement doesn't specify who should receive the apology letter.
"We'll have some discretion about who we'll send it to," Allen said of the apology letter. "It will probably be KUAC."
If McMichael meets the diversion requirements in the two-year period, the charges against him will be dismissed.
McMichael, who headed the Williams Fund for five years, is a former KU quarterback who played in the mid-1970s. He will make a public statement sometime next week, Allen said.
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