She said District Attorney Hiller Moore has not decided precisely what penalty will be pursued.
"That's not something that we are seeking at this time, to say that we want jail or do not want jail," Burns said. "What we want to do is go through and have a fair presentation of trial and allow the judge to make a fair sentencing at that time."
Attorneys did not discuss details of the grand jury proceedings, which by law must remain confidential.
One of the men who sought treatment after the fight, Andrew Lowery, has accused Jefferson and Johns of beating and kicking him, adding that Jefferson kicked him in the face.
Police responded to the allegations by searching Jefferson and Johns' homes, taking shoes from both, and performing tests for DNA that were inconclusive.
Unglesby decried the police's handling of the matter, which the lawyer said has already caused Jefferson to miss four games.
"I'm surprised really it went as far as it did. If this is what we were going to do, we could have done this three or four weeks ago. We didn't have to go through all of this unnecessary delay," Unglesby said. "If the police would have done what they would do to anybody that would have been named Jordan Jones, which is write him a ticket, and then the DA decided maybe there was something to it.
"They would have been put in pretrial diversion. ... I've been saying all along, you don't give people special treatment by celebrity. You're not supposed to give them bad treatment because of celebrity, and I do think that's what happened."
Jefferson, who'll be a senior, has started since the end of his freshman season in 2008, going 20-7. He led LSU to an 11-2 record, including a 41-24 win over Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl in which he was an efficient 10 of 19 for 158 yards and three touchdowns.
Before the fight, Miles had said repeatedly that Jefferson was the projected starter in 2011, a year when the Tigers have increasingly realistic national title aspirations.
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