{"id":366254,"date":"2026-08-08T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366254\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:26:08","slug":"new-twist-in-murder-case-of-former-miami-hurricanes-star-bryan-pata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366254\/","title":{"rendered":"New twist in murder case of former Miami Hurricanes star Bryan Pata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM<\/p>\n<p>Rashaun Jones has rejected a plea deal in the murder case involving his former University of Miami teammate Bryan Pata.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 There\u2019s a new twist in the murder case of former Miami Hurricanes football star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Bryan_Pata\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Bryan_Pata\/\">Bryan Pata<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/08\/nuevo-giro-en-caso-de-asesinato-de-ex-estrella-de-los-miami-hurricanes-bryan-pata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/08\/nuevo-giro-en-caso-de-asesinato-de-ex-estrella-de-los-miami-hurricanes-bryan-pata\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His former teammate, turned accused killer, has rejected a plea deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An inmate claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Rashaun_Jones\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Rashaun_Jones\/\">Rashaun Jones<\/a>, 40, confessed to murdering Pata, 22, but the inmate has refused to testify, saying he fears for his safety and alleging to federal and state law enforcement that Jones\u2019 defense attorney bribed him to avoid testifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, a judge says an investigation is required to look into the alleged bribery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones\u2019 defense attorney may now have to be removed and could even become a witness, pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones\u2019 defense attorney has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM Updated:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM Rashaun Jones has rejected a plea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-366254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}