Cain Velasquez is ready to be sentenced by a choose in California after pleading no-contest to quite a lot of costs together with tried homicide.
The ex-UFC heavyweight champion is scheduled to look in court docket on Oct. 18 for his sentencing after his trial was initially set to start on Monday. The 42-year-old averted the trial now faces something from probation to a life sentence as punishment, though the latter is extremely unlikely given Velasquez’s plea take care of prosecutors.
Within the unique assertion addressing Velasquez’s resolution to plead no-contest, which principally means he’s accepting punishment within the case with out really admitting guilt, the Santa Clara County District Legal professional’s workplace said particularly that “he faces jail time.”
Assuming the sentencing strikes forward as scheduled with out being reset for a later date, Velasquez will quickly discover out his destiny after he was first arrested all the best way again in February 2022. He was detained and charged following an 11-mile excessive pace automotive chase going after a car that contained Harry Goularte, a person accused of molesting Velasquez’s son at a daycare owned by Goularte’s mom.
Velasquez fired a number of rounds from a .40-caliber handgun on the car, which resulted in struck Goularte’s stepfather Paul Bender being struck within the arm. He sustained non-life threatening accidents in consequence.
When the automotive chase ended, Velasquez was arrested with out incident by the Morgan Hill Police Division and he was hit with a large number of costs that stored him behind bars for the eight months earlier than he was ultimately granted bail.
Following Velasquez’s arrest, the district lawyer said that the previous fighter’s search historical past on his telephone revealed “searches for ‘sexual assault case the place victims household fights again’” and “sexual assault instances the place victims household retaliates.”
“This defendant determined to turn out to be choose, jury, and executioner,” Santa Clara County district lawyer Jeff Rosen mentioned in an announcement. “His actions endangered harmless bystanders, together with younger youngsters and their mother and father who might have been injured or killed as he shot at his supposed sufferer. We’ve wonderful regulation enforcement on this county. Allow them to do their jobs.”
Since being launched, Velasquez has returned to teaching at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., the place he’s continued to work and even nook fighters competing in promotions just like the UFC and Bellator.
