Over an objection from the Clark County (Nevada) District Attorney’s Office, Judge Ann Zimmerman issued a release order from electronic monitoring for Henry Ruggs III on April 27, 2022.

At the time, the former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver was awaiting his preliminary hearing on charges stemming from a Nov. 2, 2021, wreck in which 23-year-old Las Vegas resident Tina Tintor was killed.

Zimmerman ruled on a defense motion seeking permission for Ruggs to go to California for medical treatment. The court records showed Ruggs was to be removed from the electronic-monitoring program in Las Vegas on May 2, 2022, and be reinstated to the program no later than June 2, 2022.

Other than “medical treatment,” the reason for Ruggs’ trip to California had not been publicly revealed until a recent court filing by his attorneys.

With Ruggs scheduled to be sentenced to prison by Judge Jennifer Schwartz on Wednesday, the former Alabama standout’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, filed a 69-page document for the judge’s consideration.

According to the document, Ruggs underwent in-patient treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder for 28 days in May 2022 at a facility in Newport Beach, California.

The State of Nevada contended Ruggs was at fault in a deadly accident that occurred in Las Vegas at 3:39 a.m. Nov. 2, 2021. That’s when a Corvette driven by Ruggs struck a Toyota RAV4 driven by Tintor. Tintor and her dog died in the wreck.

Law-enforcement authorities say Ruggs’ Corvette was traveling at 156 mph 2.5 seconds before impact and 127 mph at the time of the collision. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department used data from the car’s airbag control module to find those speeds.

On May 10 in the 8th Judicial District Court, Schwartz accepted two guilty pleas during an arraignment for Ruggs and set a sentencing hearing for 11 a.m. CDT Aug. 9.

Ruggs pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled or prohibited substance resulting in death and one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter after reaching a plea arrangement with the Clark County District Attorney’s Office.

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Ruggs had been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled or prohibited substance resulting in death, driving under the influence of alcohol and/or controlled or prohibited substance resulting in death or substantial bodily harm, two counts of reckless driving resulting in death or substantial bodily harm and possession of a gun under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Under the plea arrangement, Schwartz will be able to set the sentence from three to 10 years in the Nevada Department of Corrections. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson had said Ruggs could have been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if convicted of all the original charges at a trial.

Tintor’s mother, brother and uncle are scheduled to speak at Ruggs’ sentencing on Wednesday, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported.

The Clark County Office of the Coroner determined Tintor died from “thermal injuries due to a motor-vehicle collision.”

The Coroner’s Office also determined that significant conditions contributing to Tintor’s death “were inhalation of products of combustion, fractures of the nasal bones, right-sided ribs and left forearm, and a left hemothorax.” (A hemothorax is a collection of blood in the space between the chest wall and the lung.)

The Las Vegas police department reported tests on Ruggs at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada within two hours of the accident showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.161 percent. The legal limit in Nevada is 0.08 percent.

In their filing, his attorneys described Ruggs as “a man of good character who made a terrible mistake.”

“In light of Mr. Ruggs’ post-offense conduct, it is clear that he has made positive changes in his life, has accepted responsibility and has sincere remorse,” the filing read.

After his bail was set at $150,000 on Nov. 3, 2021, Ruggs was released into an electronic-monitoring program.

The original date for the preliminary hearing in Ruggs’ case had been Dec. 16, 2021, and it was rescheduled to March 10, May 19 and Sept. 7 in 2022 and Feb. 1 and May 4 in 2023 without ever taking place.

The delays were caused by the wait for a 47-page police report, a defense request for more time to inspect the evidence, a dispute over judges and court assignment and a challenge to the legality of the blood draw that yielded incriminating evidence after Ruggs declined to submit to a field sobriety test.

A prep star at Lee High School in Montgomery, Ruggs caught 40 passes for 746 yards and seven touchdowns in 2019 for Alabama and had 98 receptions for 1,716 yards and 24 touchdowns in three seasons with the Crimson Tide.

Ruggs joined the Raiders as the 12th selection of the 2020 NFL Draft after he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.27 seconds at the NFL Scouting Combine, the fastest time at that year’s event.

At the time of his arrest, Ruggs had 50 receptions for 921 yards and four touchdowns in 20 games for Las Vegas. The Raiders released Ruggs on the same day the wreck occurred.

Ruggs had signed a four-year contract worth $16.672 million when he was drafted. Las Vegas paid him $11.019 million before his release, according to the sports financial website spotrac.com, with most of that as a $9.685 million signing bonus.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.