He received a five-year sentence after two-and-a-half years he’ll be eligible for parole. This one carries the hate crime enhancement, which means Gray faced anywhere from five to 99 years in prison. Criss agreed, and allowed Gray to enter a new plea. So Gray’s attorney appealed to Criss to nix the entire proceedings because Gray suffers from dyslexia and didn’t fully understand the court documents or what he was signing (which is, frankly, an attorney’s job - although Gray had a different attorney the first time around). No wonder: Marc Bosaw, 57, “needed 12 staples to close a laceration to the back of his head, while James Troy Nickelson, 39, was struck in the jaw.” One suspect held open the bar door while the other two hurled in pieces of rock and concrete.
He just plead guilty again and scored a 75 percent reduction on his sentence.Īfter reaching a deal with prosecutors to serve five years in prison, Gray was handed a 20-year sentence by District Judge Susan Criss, who refused to go along with the plea agreement. Those charges were dropped - because Gray is dyslexic. In March Alejandro Sam Gray, now 19, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty years in prison for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after he and two friends last year threw concrete blocks at patrons inside Robert’s Lafitte Bar, in Galveston, Texas, because they were believed to be gay.
