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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The antheral liable for a convulsive location penetration successful January is present heading to situation for 19 years and 8 months.
"I person to look astatine the facts, which are horrendous," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Conklin said.
The justice ordered Action News not to amusement Samuel Rodriguez's look successful tribunal aft his lawyer objected. The antheral is present convicted of attempted murder, burglary, and assault.
"Being attacked successful the information of your ain location is not thing that anyone should person to undergo," authoritative Matthew Hamilton said.
Rodriguez was connected post-prison supervision erstwhile helium broke into a Fresno County location and stabbed a stranger, investigators say, "without immoderate provocation."
"Mr. Rodriguez does endure from a past of intelligence wellness issues, including his diagnosed schizophrenia, which I judge played a ample relation successful this case," nationalist defender Deidre Adams said.
But the unfortunate pushed back, calling it "absurd" to judge the defense's argument.
For respective moments, the unfortunate recounted the onslaught successful a passionate connection they requested Action News not show.
They described Rodriguez arsenic a "demon," and said it was a "savage beating" that near them with imperishable pain, a torn retina, and a breached nose.
The unfortunate is present excessively triggered to reenter the country wherever the onslaught unfolded, and said Rodriguez turned their portion of eden successful Fresno County into what they described arsenic "Hell connected Earth."
"I can't ideate what you went through," Judge Conklin said. "To person to endure done that is indescribable, and you've done an admirable occupation describing it."
The unfortunate pushed for a longer sentence, but the justice explained helium is constricted by the law.
"The condemnation is going to beryllium that 19 years and 8 months, and there's truly nary mode I tin get supra that," Judge Conklin said.
The unfortunate noted that Rodriguez volition beryllium astir 57 years aged erstwhile helium is released from prison, an property the unfortunate believes is inactive young capable to airs an utmost hazard to society.
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