Former NBA participant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar participates in a sports activities and activism panel in San Jose, Calif., in 2017. His son Adam, was sentenced on Tuesday for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a searching knife throughout an argument over trash cans.
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Former NBA participant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar participates in a sports activities and activism panel in San Jose, Calif., in 2017. His son Adam, was sentenced on Tuesday for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a searching knife throughout an argument over trash cans.
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The son of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sentenced to 6 months in jail for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a searching knife throughout an argument over trash cans, prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.
Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 29, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading responsible to a few counts of assault with a lethal weapon and one rely of carrying a dirk or dagger, with sentencing enhancements for inflicting nice bodily damage, in accordance with the Orange County district lawyer’s workplace.
Abdul-Jabbar accepted a plea deal from an Orange County decide. The sentence was stayed till Jan. 7 in order that Abdul-Jabbar can apply for residence confinement as an alternative of incarceration, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
Probation officers will resolve whether or not he can be permitted residence confinement.
Prosecutors had sought a seven-year jail sentence and objected to the plea supply.
Abdul-Jabbar and his San Clemente neighbor share a driveway. Abdul-Jabbar stabbed the 60-year-old neighbor a number of occasions on June 9 of final yr after the person confronted him about failing to soak up trash cans for Abdul-Jabbar’s aged roommate, prosecutors mentioned.
The 60-year-old, was stabbed at the back of the pinnacle, struggling a fractured cranium and almost died of blood loss after collapsing exterior of the emergency room, prosecutors mentioned.
“This slap on the wrist is an absolute miscarriage of justice,” District Lawyer Todd Spitzer mentioned in an announcement after the sentencing. “This man almost bled to demise in entrance of the emergency room doorways after being stabbed so violently time and again that his cranium was fractured.”
“We imagine the whole disregard for human life over a dispute over trashcans is so egregious it warranted jail time,” Spitzer mentioned.
