... in trouble with the law. Lawrence Taylor was in the midst of yet another post-retirement image rehabilitation after appearing on the hit ABC show “Dancing with the Stars” last year. Now, he’s facing charges of third-degree rape and soliciting a prostiture after an encounter with a 16-year-old runaway girl at a hotel in Montebello, N.Y. The former New York Giants linebacker allegedly set up a pay-for-sex meeting with the girl and was arrested early Thursday morning in his hotel room. Taylor’s attorneys and his wife are saying this was a set-up and that LT is innocent. But how did the Hall of Fame linebacker put himself back in peril?

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