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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth makes a brief appearance before Miami-Dade Judge Dennis J. Murphy after he turned himself in Thursday.

There are other complications caused by the legal case against Stallworth. The Browns have little quality depth at wide receiver, a position once considered a team strength. The team recently released veteran Joe Jurevicius and there have been reports the team was shopping star Braylon Edwards, whose multiple drops cost the team last season.

The Browns last month signed receiver David Patten, a solid 12-year veteran who played most recently for New Orleans. With Stallworth’s status now uncertain, the club could use its No. 5 overall pick in the upcoming draft on a top wide receiver like Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree or Missouri’s Jeremy Maclin.

Stallworth’s attorney, Christopher Lyons, said he would “vigorously defend this case” and that the defense team already has begun its own probe into the March 14 crash that killed the 59-year-old Reyes.

A police affidavit said Stallworth’s blood-alcohol level after he hit Reyes with his Bentley GT was .126, well above Florida’s legal limit of .08. Stallworth had been drinking at a club in the swank Fontainebleau hotel in the hours before he got behind the wheel.

Reyes, a construction crane operator just getting off work, was rushing across the causeway shortly after 7 a.m. to catch a bus home. He was not in the crosswalk when he was struck, and Stallworth told police he flashed his lights and honked his horn in an attempt to warn Reyes.

Stallworth will be prohibited from driving while on bail and not allowed to drink alcohol, according to court documents. He also must observe a midnight to 6 a.m. curfew and submit to random alcohol and drug testing through the NFL’s substance abuse program.

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