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The defendant was found guilty on all six counts. “The Oro Valley Prosecutor’s Office is pleased with the outcome of this case. Simon issued a statement Tuesday regarding the sentencing. A subsequent violation would mean another 180 days in jail.

#Family sought revenge against tormentor. shot full

If Bell is shown to violate the terms of his probation - which also includes violations of law, even traffic laws, and willful failure to make timely and full restitution payments - he is to serve a 180-day jail sentence. She also ordered Bell to continue with psychotherapy, refrain from drinking alcohol, not to contact Pastner or his family and to not make any comments on social media regarding Pastner, his coaching, his team or his family.

She returned again to the fact that the convictions were for misdemeanor offenses, not felonies, while saying that, “I can’t even grasp how they are misdemeanor offenses, quite honestly, but nonetheless, we’re in a limited jurisdiction court and I have to keep that in mind.”Īt that point, she presented the three-year probation sentence, restitution and a suspended 180-day jail sentence for each count. She took him to task for intimidating Pendley - “who’s still sticking by you, God knows why” - into making the sexual assault claims against Pastner and manipulating a McCamish Pavilion security guard, Christopher Meegan, into corroborating the allegations.īerry went on to say that “honestly, I don’t think there’s anything that I can do or actually craft by way of sentence to fit the seriousness and diabolical nature of these charges and your actions.” She said that “you set yourself singlehandedly on trying to ruin his career, his reputation and livelihood of what I think everyone in this courtroom can agree is one of the kindest people, someone who took you in as a friend, who trusted you completely with his basketball program, with his family, and you violated that trust. “Because there is simply no evidence to suggest that you have any insight whatsoever to the person that you were, perhaps even still are, and the harm that you caused someone that was very kind to you.” “I was hoping to find remorse and acceptance or responsibility as mitigating factors in this case, but I can’t,” Berry said.

(Zarzycki contended that Bell has CTE, a claim that Pastner’s attorney Scott Palumbo disputed on the grounds that, among other things, CTE can be diagnosed only in an autopsy.) She said she also considered his mental-health issues - while acknowledging that that she believes that Bell exaggerates his medical issues and “uses them to whatever ends he wants or sees fit” - as a mitigating factor, saying that they would be impacted by jail time. She told him that she was assigning great weight to the “emotional and financial harm” caused to Pastner as an aggravating factor, especially considering that Bell orchestrated the allegations - that Pastner had sexually assaulted Bell’s girlfriend, Jennifer Pendley, more than a dozen times - not only for financial gain but also for revenge. On the other hand, they’ve caused great - if not irreparable, in some respects - harm to Mr. Bell’s attorney, Jeremy Zarzycki, contending that his client was suffering from mental illness and that prison time would be an undue hardship that would prevent him from getting the help that he needs, had sought unsupervised probation.Īddressing Bell, who was in the courtroom, Berry said that “this is a really difficult sentencing for me on the one hand, because these are misdemeanors, and the court can’t lose sight of the fact that they are misdemeanors.