Robert Kraft Waives Arraignment and Requests Jury Trial

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Robert K. Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots who has pleaded not guilty to two solicitation charges, on Tuesday waived his arraignment, which was scheduled for Thursday in Florida, and requested a jury trial, according to a court filing.

Prosecutors had offered to drop the misdemeanor charges against Mr. Kraft, but as a part of that deal they wanted him to admit that he would have been found guilty at trial on the charges.

Mr. Kraft and prosecutors spent much of last week negotiating over the terms of a plea deal offered to him and 24 other men who were similarly accused of soliciting prostitution at a massage parlor in Jupiter, Fla., called the Orchids…