The news barely registered anywhere because the media have moved on to other things.

Jayson Williams no longer is hot, four years after he was arrested in the killing of a chauffeur and two years since a jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter charge against him.

As celebrity athlete killings go, the 2002 shooting death of Costas (Gus) Christofi didn’t rank with the O.J. Simpson slayings. Still, there was a fascination with the story of the former NBA star who was brandishing a shotgun when it went off and killed the 55-year-old driver.

Court TV covered the proceedings live. Reporters packed the courtroom to hear testimony about the bloody night at Williams’ sprawling mansion.

But the trial sputtered to an inconclusive end, and Williams faded from memory as lawyers kept themselves occupied with appeals.

When a court ruled the other day that Williams could be retried on the manslaughter charge, you had to look hard to find a mention of it in the back pages of the sports section.

Andrea Adams, though, never forgot.

She couldn’t. Christofi was her brother.

Adams sat in the courtroom every day looking for justice. She’s still looking.

“The family would like to see him held accountable for what happened,” Adams said. “After all, a man did lose his life, and he was just an innocent bystander.”

Adams still struggles with the death of her brother, who was hired the night of Feb. 14, 2002, to drive Williams and some former New Jersey Nets teammates and members of the Harlem Globetrotters.

She remains angry about how he was killed.

She believes Williams humiliated and taunted her brother at a restaurant where the players were drinking and then at the mansion before he was shot. She doesn’t buy into the idea that the shooting was a tragic accident.

“If it had just been an unfortunate accident, I could accept it,” she said. “But it wasn’t.”

Defense attorneys did their best during the trial to convince the jury it was just that. Williams didn’t testify, but the main premise was that the former player was simply showing off a Browning Citori shotgun from his collection when it went off and hit Christofi.

That contradicted testimony from former teammate Benoit Benjamin and another man, who testified that Williams cursed at the victim before the gun went off. Benjamin said he actually saw Williams pull the trigger.

Celebrity justice, though, sometimes works in funny ways.

A jury deliberated 23 hours over four days before acquitting Williams of the most serious charge, aggravated manslaughter. They deadlocked 8-4 in favor of acquittal on the reckless manslaughter charge.

They couldn’t, however, overlook testimony that Williams wiped the gun clean and then put it in the hands of Christofi as he gasped his last breaths. Williams was convicted on lesser counts of covering up the shooting.

Adams rushed from the courtroom that day, shaken by the whole thing.

“It was a mockery, not a fair trial,” she said. “The judge ruled in the favor of the defense on everything.”

One of those rulings might have been the most critical. The judge ruled that testimony over Williams’ previous use of guns would not be allowed, so the jury was not able to ponder an incident that took place at the same mansion six months earlier.

According to investigators, former Nets player Dwayne Schintzius said Williams bet him $100 that Schintzius could not drag Williams’ Rottweiler out of his house. Schintzius said he won the bet and Williams then fired two shotgun blasts at the dog, killing him.

He said Williams pointed the gun at him and told him to clean up the dog’s remains “or you’re next.”

Shoot a limousine driver and you’ve still got a chance to get off. Kill a dog, and the animal lovers on the jury will string you up.