Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has a brand new sentencing date.
Initially scheduled for Friday in Santa Clara County (Calif.) courtroom, Velasquez’s listening to was continued to a later date. Courtroom information now reveal that date can be Jan. 24.
On the listening to, Velasquez will go earlier than Choose Arthur Bolcanegra, who will decide what penalties he’ll obtain, as he faces a handful of expenses together with tried homicide for a February 2022 capturing within the San Jose space.
Bolcanegra is similar decide who granted Velasquez bail after practically 9 months of incarceration and a number of denials by different judges.
Velasquez, 42, has been out on bail since November 2022. A full checklist of expenses consists of tried homicide (one depend), capturing at a motorcar or plane (one depend), assault with a firearm (three counts), assault with a lethal weapon (three counts), willfully discharging a firearm from a car (one depend) and carrying a loaded firearm with intent to commit a felony (one depend).
Velasquez initially pleaded not responsible to the fees however modified his plea to no contest in August.
Velasquez was arrested practically two-and-a-half years in the past after he allegedly pursued and shot at a person, Harry Goularte, accused of molesting Velasquez’s then 4-year-old son at a daycare. Velasquez allegedly chased a automotive carrying Goularte and relations throughout a high-speed chase with a bullet placing Goularte’s stepfather, inflicting damage.
Goularte faces a felony cost of lewd acts with a minor and has a trial setting and movement listening to scheduled for Nov. 13. There may be additionally a coinciding civil lawsuit by the Velasquez household towards Goularte, his household, and their companies.
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