The news barely registered anywhere because the media has moved on to other things.
Jayson Williams is no longer 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 two years later.
"The family would like to see him held accountable for what happened," Adams said Wednesday. "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.
