MIAMI (AP) — Mexican actor Pablo Lyle was sentenced Friday to 5 years in jail for involuntary manslaughter after fatally punching a person throughout a street rage confrontation in Miami in 2019.
The sentence got here nearly 4 years after Lyle was charged with homicide within the demise of a person he struck throughout a visitors incident.
Miami-Dade Circuit Decide Marisa Tinkler Mendez introduced the sentence two months after rejecting the actor’s request for a brand new trial and upholding the responsible verdict reached by a jury in October.
The 36-year-old Mexican telenovela star, who appeared within the Netflix crime sequence “Yankee,” had confronted a most sentence of as much as 15 years in jail. The choose additionally ordered eight years of probation, battle decision administration and 500 hours of group service for the actor.
The actor has 30 days to enchantment the sentence.
Wearing a purple jail uniform, Lyle seemed calm and expressed repentance in the course of the greater than three-hour listening to. He has been detained since his Oct. 4 conviction.
“I’m very sorry,” Lyle mentioned in Spanish, a number of the members of Hernández household who had been within the court docket room, amongst them his son. “I all the time pray for him and for you, with all my coronary heart.”
After a week-long trial, a six-member jury convicted Lyle of involuntary manslaughter within the demise of Juan Ricardo Hernández, 63.
Hernández, who was unarmed, suffered a traumatic mind damage and died 4 days later whereas hospitalized.
Lyle’s attorneys argued that he acted in self-defense. Additionally they mentioned that there have been inconsistencies within the proof in the course of the trial.
When handing down her sentence, the choose, nonetheless, mentioned that Lyle made a “poor determination” and acted “out of anger.”
“The proof exhibits that the motion of Mr. Lyle was an act of violence,” Tinkler mentioned. “Mr. Lyle must be held chargeable for these actions.”
The street confrontation was captured by safety cameras.
Lyle’s brother-in-law was taking the actor, his spouse and two kids to the airport. Their automotive handed that of Hernández, who stopped at a purple mild, obtained out and approached the driving force’s window of Lyle’s car to say that they’d blocked his method.
Based on safety video footage, Lyle and Hernández obtained into an argument, and the actor punched Hernández within the face. Lyle claimed he was defending himself. He mentioned that his kids had been terrified and that he feared Hernández had a weapon.
On the listening to, Lyle’s spouse, his brother-in-law and his sister supplied testimony earlier than the choose made her determination public.
On Hernández’s facet, his son described him as a really glad, attentive individual, with good well being and rules. Juan Ricardo Hernández Jr. requested the choose to condemn Lyle to the utmost of 15 years.
He mentioned that the day earlier than the altercation, he had been along with his father.
“I didn’t need to consider it was him,” Hernández’s son mentioned of going to the hospital to see his father after receiving information of the incident.
