Aug 06, 2013 02:58 PM EDT By Russell Westerholm, UniversityHerald Reporter

About a month after being charged with misdemeanor simple battery and possibly not playing for the LSU Tigers this year or beyond, Jeremy Hill has been reinstated, USA Today reported.

LSU's tailback could have received a sentence of six months in prison for a violation of his probation stemming from a bar parking lot fight in late April. Monday's hearing was to determine if the cheap shot Hill delivered to a fellow LSU student that night violated his probation for a 2012 misdemeanor charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

Hill reportedly had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old when he was 18 and his probation for that plea had not finished when he and non-LSU student Robert Bayardo jumped Connor Baldridge.

District Court Judge Bonnie Jackson gave Hill an extended probation and additional community service instead of the six-month prison sentence.

According to the Associated Press, Baldridge said during the July 12 hearing that he did not want to see Hill serve time in prison, but that he would leave decision to the judge.

In mid-July, during his school's turn during the SEC media days, LSU head football coach Les Miles told reporters Hill would receive an indefinite suspension pending the outcome of the case.

According to CBS Sports, Miles let the team vote whether or not to allow Hill back following the case's resolution. The tailback practiced with the team Monday afternoon after the team decided to bring him back.

"He was not going to be invited back to practice, had they not voted to have him back," Miles said Monday afternoon. "I wanted them to have the right to express themselves in a vote, and they did."

Miles did not say Hill would sit out any games this season despite being reinstated to the team. However, he did not comment on any disciplinary actions toward his running back at all. Hill issued a formal apology at the Tigers' football facility Monday.

"First of all I want to thank Coach Miles and this university for giving me another chance to play football," Hill said. "And I would like to apologize to first my teammates, and the community. I made a poor choice in judgment, but since then I've learned from my mistake, and moving forward I'll continue to be a better person, continue to be a better teammate and continue to be a role model for the kids in the community. And thank you."

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