Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has a brand new sentencing date.
Initially scheduled for Friday in Santa Clara County (Calif.) court docket, Velasquez’s listening to was continued to a later date. Courtroom data now reveal that date can be Jan. 24.
On the listening to, Velasquez will go earlier than Decide Arthur Bolcanegra, who will decide what penalties he’ll obtain, as he faces a handful of costs together with tried homicide for a February 2022 capturing within the San Jose space.
Bolcanegra is identical decide who granted Velasquez bail after almost 9 months of incarceration and a number of denials by different judges.
Velasquez, 42, has been out on bail since November 2022. A full record of costs contains tried homicide (one depend), capturing at a motorized vehicle or plane (one depend), assault with a firearm (three counts), assault with a lethal weapon (three counts), willfully discharging a firearm from a automobile (one depend) and carrying a loaded firearm with intent to commit a felony (one depend).
Velasquez initially pleaded not responsible to the costs however modified his plea to no contest in August.
Velasquez was arrested almost 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 automobile carrying Goularte and members of the family throughout a high-speed chase with a bullet putting 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 in opposition to Goularte, his household, and their companies.
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