MANKATO, Minn. –a Mankato man accused in a violent 2016 attack on a Minnesota State-Mankato football player was ordered to prison for flagrant probation violations. Judge  Gregory Anderson imposed a previously stayed 86-month prison sentence on Trevor Shelley, 28. Shelley had tested positive for cocaine, used  marijuana, drank the fermented tea kombucha, and failed to check in with his probation agent. Shelley originally was convicted with another man for a bar-room assault that left Mankato State football player Isaac Kolstad with permanent brain injuries. The other man, Gopher quarterback Philip Nelson, kicked Kolstad in the head. Like Shelley, he was sentenced to probation.

Shelley. A lame defense: Acting on the advice of a non-lawyer about probation rules.