DEFENDANT ADMITS STABBING MAN IN HEART AT SIMI EVENT.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Staff Writer VENTURA - Just as his trial was to begin, a 23-year-old Palmdale man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing a Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. resident during a brawl brawl n. 1. A noisy quarrel or fight. 2. A loud party. 3. A loud, roaring noise. intr.v. brawled, brawl·ing, brawls 1. To quarrel or fight noisily. 2. at a boxing event and punk rock show. Benjamin Wolf, already jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail, faces a maximum of seven years in prison when sentenced June 20 in the Jan. 23 attack on Abel Guevara, 28. ``This type of vicious crime - stabbing somebody in the heart - should not be tolerated,'' said prosecutor Rameen Minoui, adding that he will seek the maximum penalty. ``Justice would best be served if the punishment fits the crime.'' Wolf pleaded guilty of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , with a special allegation of causing great bodily injury. Guevara underwent open-heart surgery open-heart surgery Any surgical procedure opening the heart and exposing one or more of its chambers, most often to repair valve disease or correct congenital heart malformations (see congenital heart disease). and was in critical condition for six days from the wounds he suffered in the stabbing at the show in Dakota's restaurant in Simi Valley. Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Jean Farley said her client stabbed Guevara because he thought the man was assaulting a friend. ``He basically feels responsible for what happened to Abel and believed at the time that Abel was attacking a woman that is a friend of his,'' she said. ``I feel that he should be given probation. These are unusual circumstances. It's unfortunate that the injuries were severe. And it was not Ben's desire that the injuries be so severe. He just wanted to stop the attack,'' she said. Casey Holland, a 25-year-old Simi Valley resident, was also hospitalized with stab wounds to his back suffered during the melee. Derek Shea, 27, of Acton pleaded guilty on May 2 in the attack on Holland. Shea, who remains free on $50,000 bail, will be sentenced June 15. Billed as the Millennium Showdown at Dakota's, the show became a nightmare for investigators who interviewed dozens of the 700 people who attended. Many of them had been consuming alcohol, authorities said. Guevara has filed a $5 million claim against the city, accusing municipal officials of failing to require proper permits or to monitor the event. Wolf, who changed his plea just as a trial before Judge Ken Riley Kenneth Jerome Riley (born August 6 1947) is a former professional American Football defensive back who played his entire career for the Cincinnati Bengals, in the American Football League in 1969 and in the NFL from 1970 through 1983. was to begin, would need to prove there are unusual circumstances in the case before he could get a probationary sentence, Minoui said. |
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