Brennan trial deferred once again

Former University of Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan’s jury trial for allegedly filing a false police report has again been deferred — this time until February — because he was being treated on the mainland for an old head injury from a vehicle crash.

The Circuit Court trial, initially postponed on Sept. 28, was set to begin Monday before Judge Christine Kuriyama.

Brennan’s lawyer, Michael Green, requested a continuance at a Nov. 16 hearing because Brennan was undergoing treatment. Over the objections of a city prosecutor, Kuriyama granted the continuance until Feb. 29.

In August, Green entered a not guilty plea for Brennan, who was not in District Court, to filing a false police report and requested the trial.

Police said Brennan reported in June that his car had been stolen from his home. Police later found his car near a Kapiolani Boulevard bar. Officers looked at surveillance video and saw that Brennan was the one who parked the car and abandoned it.

Outside the courtroom after the August hearing, Green blamed the head injury from a 2010 vehicle crash for causing memory problems that led to the recent misdemeanor charge, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.

Green said the “trauma-related injury that goes back to his car crash” was to blame for Brennan reporting to police that his vehicle had been stolen. Brennan has no memory of parking his car, but police “have some video he parked it,” Green said. “It’s a misdemeanor, but it’s sad.”

In March 2014, Brennan told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser he had been diagnosed with traumatic head injury. He said the condition was caused by the two-car crash on Nov. 19, 2010, on Hawaii island. Brennan, who was a passenger in one of the vehicles, was hospitalized for eight days with injuries to his head, ribs and collarbone.

In July 2013, Brennan pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. He was fined $300. He was pulled over in Kailua in 2012 for speeding, and police said he had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.17, more than twice the legal limit.

Brennan still holds the NCAA record with 58 touchdown passes in a season and the two-season record with 96 touchdown passes. In 2007, he came in third in voting for the Heisman Trophy.

Brennan was the Washington Redskins’ sixth-round pick in the 2008 NFL draft. He was with the Redskins for two seasons, spending the 2009 season on injured reserve, before being released in 2010. He was with the Oakland Raiders for a month in 2010 before again being released.

The Washington Post reported that Brennan played in the United Football League in 2011 as quarterback for the Hartford Colonials, but the team folded three months later. In February 2012, he signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League, but was cut five months later.

Last year, Brennan was on reality television — “4th and Loud” — as quarterback of the Los Angeles Kiss in the Arena Football League until he was cut because of the old brain injury stemming from the 2010 car accident, according to the newspaper’s report.