Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail time in domestic violence case, judge rules
Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail time in domestic violence case, judge rules ABC News
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Jonathan Majors Sentenced to Domestic Violence Programming
Jonathan Majors, whose promising acting career stalled after a domestic violence conviction in New York, was sentenced Monday to domestic violence programming after the judge decided “jail is not necessary.”
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Majors must complete a 52-week in-person batterers intervention program in Los Angeles, continue mental health counseling and stay away from the victim, his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, said Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Michael Gaffey.
Majors faced a maximum sentence of 364 days in jail, but the Manhattan district attorney’s office did not seek jail time. Instead, prosecutor Kelli Galaway said domestic violence programming along with an order of protection against Jabbari would suffice.
Actor Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good arrive at Criminal Court in New York, April 8, 2024.
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Victim Impact Statement
- Jabbari said in a victim impact statement that Majors “remains a danger to others.”
- Jabbari spoke of “extreme physical and emotional pain” she said she sustained “both immediately and over the months that followed” their March 2023 altercation.
- “When I was with him I became a different version of myself. I was small, scared and vulnerable,” Jabbari said from the podium. “He is not sorry. He has not accepted responsibility. And he will do it again. He will abuse other women.”
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