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Most people would at the very least face felony vandalism charges and hope their lawyer could, at best, plead them down to a misdemeanor.He did a simple act of vandalism , and a couple bystanders got very minor injuries. If this was anyone else they would have been forced to pay for the broken window and given a slap on the wrist.
I don't know about Nevada, but in CA anything over 400 dollars in damage (certainly the case here) can be charged as a misdo or a felony at the DAs discretion. When people actually got hurt, and the entire incident is on video, and you can see the person showing that blatant a disregard for safety and the law, I wouldn't expect the DA of any county in CA, even the [] "bay area" counties, to file it as a misdemeanor. I mean, his criminal record is quite light compared to the average guy in felony court, and that's certainly not unimportant, but I see guys in felony court every day that don't have any record. So it's not like you get a freebie for your first time.
And typically, when a DA settles a felony for a misdemeanor, he (in my experience) feels entitled to substantially more jail time/work release than if the case was originally filed and settled as a misdemeanor.
The only reason they wouldn't file on Conor or would give him any kind of leniency here is because he's famous and popular and it could lose the DA favor with voters if he/his deputy decided to flex on Conor and try to actually get jail time. Because on paper, without looking at who he is, there are a lot of aggravating factors here or factors that would really work against him in plea bargaining. It's an unbeatable case, he's clearly the one behaving out of line, and people were injured.
I would go so far as to say that the average guy in my county would be charged with assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, possibly ADW, and possibly an enhancement for causing great bodily injury to give him up to seven years prison exposure and a "strike." The average guy would be lucky to settle this case for a felony vandalism and 180 days.