Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL in early September after a video surfaced of him striking his wife, Mount Vernon native Janay Palmer Rice, and knocking her unconscious before dragging her out of an Atlantic City hotel elevator.
Arbitrator Barbara S. Jones, a former U.S. District judge who heard Rice's appeal, ruled that Rice did not mislead or lie to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, a Bronxville resident, according to ESPN. Jones reportedly said the NFL's second suspension of Rice -- the indefinite suspension that followed an initial and controversial two-game suspension -- was "arbitrary."
For more on Friday's developments, check the ESPN report here.
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