Mazatlan-born actor Pablo Lyle was sentenced to 5 years in prison in the U.S.

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Pablo Lyle (Photo.- El Pais)

After a week-long trial, a six-member jury convicted the telenovela star of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Cuban American Juan Ricardo Hernández.

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after fatally punching a man during a road rage confrontation in Miami in 2019.

The sentence came almost four years after Lyle was charged with murder in the death of a man he struck during a traffic incident.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez announced the sentence two months after rejecting the actor’s request for a new trial and upholding the guilty verdict reached by a jury in October.

The 36-year-old Mexican telenovela star, who appeared in the Netflix crime series Yankee, had faced a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison. The judge also ordered eight years of probation, conflict resolution management, and 500 hours of community service for the actor.

The actor has 30 days to appeal the sentence.

Dressed in a red jail uniform, Lyle looked calm and expressed repentance during the more than three-hour hearing. He has been detained since his Oct. 4 conviction.

“I am very sorry,” Lyle said in Spanish, looking at some of the members of the Hernández family who were in the courtroom, among them his son. “I always pray for him and for you, with all my heart.”

After a week-long trial, a six-member jury convicted Lyle of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Juan Ricardo Hernández, 63.

Hernández, who was unarmed, suffered a traumatic brain injury and died four days later while hospitalized.

Source.- Univision

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