Former UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen faces a lowered variety of costs in a legal case stemming from an alleged December resort assault case in Las Vegas.
At a courtroom listening to Wednesday, Justice Professional Tem Craig Friedberg dismissed two misdemeanor battery counts that accused Sonnen of a Dec. 18 assault on Julie and Christopher Stellpflug on the 4 Seasons resort in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal first reported the information.
Sonnen initially confronted 11 whole costs, which included 10 misdemeanor battery costs and one depend of felony battery by strangulation. The dismissal of the 2 misdemeanor costs Wednesday comply with a beforehand dropped felony battery cost together with the submitting of an amended legal grievance in March. That modification lowered the variety of misdemeanor counts to 6, which is now right down to 4 after Wednesday’s listening to.
In response to the lawsuit filed by the Stellpflugs, Sonnen was allegedly attacked the couple within the hallway of the resort “with out provocation” which, in accidents.
Sonnen’s protection legal professional Dayvid Figler filed a movement to dismiss all costs after prosecutors had been unable to acquire statements the Stellpflugs beforehand made to a TV station in California, claiming the feedback could possibly be used as exculpatory proof within the case.
Chief Deputy District Legal professional Jake Merback argued the failure to acquire the statements was not withholding proof.
“There isn’t any motive to consider that the statements made to the media could be inconsistent with the Stellpflug’s prior statements,” Merback wrote in courtroom paperwork.
Merback additionally wrote that solely costs associated to the Stellpflugs’ alleged accidents must be dismissed from the case if the decide disagreed with the prosecution.
Sonnen, 45, was not in attendance for the listening to on Wednesday.
Public negotiations are anticipated to renew at an Oct. 5 hearings, based on on-line data. Sonnen, who just lately hosted a pair of pre-fight press conferences for the upcoming Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva boxing match, has but to publicly touch upon the case.
Story initially appeared on MMA Junkie