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Former Nebraska running back Maurice Washington has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation after he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor in a California court case alleging he sent a 10-second video of a sex act to the girl who was in the video.

In exchange for the no contest plea, prosecutors dropped the felony charge Washington faced.

Washington, 20, was taken into custody Thursday. The Santa Clara County Jail website on Friday showed he was in custody at a minimum security facility. His release date was listed as March 20.

In addition to the probation, Washington was ordered to have no contact with the woman in the video.

The plea deal ends more than a year of delayed hearings — 10 in total — since charges were filed against him in February 2019.

The charges stemmed from a text Washington sent in March 2018 to an ex-girlfriend. Authorities said the text included an old video of the girl, then 15, performing oral sex. Washington did not record the video and was not there when the video was recorded.