Update on Jason Momoa

[wraithfodder]

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/10/07/Stargate-assailant-gets-5-years-in-jail/UPI-80501254968790/

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge Wednesday sentenced Dominic Bando to five years in prison for assaulting "Stargate Atlantis" actor Jason Momoa, officials said.

Momoa needed 140 stitches after Bando hit him in the face with a pint beer glass that shattered during an altercation at the Bird Cafe in Los Angeles last year.

The Los Angeles Times said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Champagne sentenced Bando to the five-year state prison term Wednesday and scheduled a restitution hearing for next month.

Bando pleaded no contest to the charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
 

Comments

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

Good, i think 5 years is fitting for the the crime. The injury inflicted was awful, but the potential was there for something much more serious.

Maybe he would have got less if he hadn't attacked an actor, but that doesn't mean he should get less, it means the courts should be this tough on everyone, regardless of who they smash a glass in the face of.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

It's the potential and the intent. Could easily have taken out an eye, major blood vessel, fractured skull, etc. I'd like to know the guy's record, as that may have played a part in the higher sentence.

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

Precisely, you don't smash a glass in comeones face without intending to cause serious injury. He could easily have left him with a permanent disability and/or disfigurement. Heck if he'd got it just right, he could have killed him. *shudders at thought*

5 years suddenly doesn't seem long enough...