Austin Watson of the Nashville Predators appeared in court on a domestic assault charge.

via Natalie Neysa Alun tweets,

Watson is pleading no contest to a misdemeanor domestic assault charge and will be placed on pre trial diversion. He will be placed on probation and if he violates it he faces up to a year in jail.

The prosecutor said the reported victim in the case, with whom @PredsNHL Austin Watson has a baby, asked for the case to be dismissed but the state felt due to other witnesses in the case they could still prosecute it.

Several conditions of his probation include he must complete 26 weeks of a batterer intervention course.