Screech goes to jail...

[Hammerfest]

http://www.wisn.com/news/dustin-diam...urday/33769158

Dustin Diamond ordered to report to jail Sunday
Judge hands down sentence for Christmas Day stabbing



PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. —Dustin Diamond, the actor who played Screech in the "Saved By The Bell" television series, has been sentenced to jail.

Diamond, 38, was found guilty of disorderly conduct and concealing a weapon in an incident where he stabbed a man Christmas Day in a Port Washington bar.

A jury found him not guilty of second-degree recklessly endangering safety.

He's not gonna have a good time...

[I Push Buttons]

If he was found not guilty then why does he have to go to jail?

[Bdatik]

If he was found not guilty then why does he have to go to jail?

"Diamond, 38, was found guilty of disorderly conduct and concealing a weapon"

[Deleted]

If he was found not guilty then why does he have to go to jail?

Probably because he was found guilty of a concealed weapons charge instead or something to that effect.

[Hammerfest]

What's there to discuss though?

Pick something.

[lockedout]

He's not gonna have a good time...

Hasn't he been to jail a few times already?

[Deleted]

Why only jail and not prison? why only misorderly conduct and concealment, and not assault/battery/bodily harm with a deadly weapon? it says he stabbed someone.

[I Push Buttons]

Why only jail and not prison? why only misorderly conduct and concealment, and not assault/battery/bodily harm with a deadly weapon? it says he stabbed someone.

I believe the person he stabbed started the altercation so it had a modicum of self-defense/defense of another (his girlfriend).

[starkey]

Why only jail and not prison? why only misorderly conduct and concealment, and not assault/battery/bodily harm with a deadly weapon? it says he stabbed someone.

Maybe the judge wanted Kelly Kapowski number and screech got off lightly.

[lockedout]

Why only jail and not prison? why only misorderly conduct and concealment, and not assault/battery/bodily harm with a deadly weapon? it says he stabbed someone.

Plea bargain.

[Bdatik]

Why only jail and not prison?

Because the crimes he was convicted of carryjail time and not prison time.

why only misorderly conduct and concealment, and not assault/battery/bodily harm with a deadly weapon? it says he stabbed someone.

The Wisconsin jury determined that Diamond did not recklessly endanger safety, but he carried a concealed weapon and behaved in a disorderly manner.

The altercation occurred at the Grand Avenue Saloon in Port Washington.

Diamond and his girlfriend, Amanda Schutz were inside the bar when a group of intoxicated people started behaving in a rude and insulting manner, leading him to believe "there was going to be a brawl," he said, according to the arrest report at the time.

He said he turned to close his account and get their coats, but when he looked back, his girlfriend was bleeding and two men were holding her hair, the report said.

Diamond said he moved toward his girlfriend when a man grabbed him, the report said. Diamond said he might have stabbed the man with a pen used to sign a credit card receipt but later conceded he was armed with the knife, the report said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/us/dus...ond-sentenced/

Plea bargain.

It went to trial.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Saved by The Bell: Screech Goes to Jail

Have Franklin and Bash show up to defend him!

[Deleted]

Because the crimes he was convicted of carryjail time and not prison time.



http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/us/dus...ond-sentenced/


It went to trial.

That can't be the whole story, there has to be some element of excessive force or him striking first involved, it obviously was not clear cut self defense.

[Bdatik]

That can't be the whole story, there has to be some element of excessive force or him striking first involved, it obviously was not clear cut self defense.

I don't understand why you feel "there has to be some element of excessive force or him striking first involved".

[I Push Buttons]

That can't be the whole story, there has to be some element of excessive force or him striking first involved, it obviously was not clear cut self defense.

In most jurisdictions in the US, if you escalate a situation you become the aggressor. So if someone attacks you with fists and you aren't in imminent danger and pull out a knife, in many cases you become the aggressor at that point.

[Deleted]

In most jurisdictions in the US, if you escalate a situation you become the aggressor. So if someone attacks you with fists and you aren't in imminent danger and pull out a knife, in many cases you become the aggressor at that point.

Yeah something like that seems the most likely.

I just found out you can own a stiletto in washington, but not switchblade or spring loaded blade oO. (oh nvm, a stiletto historically is not a italian switchblade)

[Bakis]

He stabbed someone at a bar and gets jail time.
What is the controversy I'm missing?

[Pipebomb]

Pick something.

He's not gonna have a good time…

He WILL have a good time...

[Orlong]

Why are people so infatuated with this guy. He's a B-list actor (if that even) who had one role on one show (a kids show at that) and people act like he is a Morgan Freeman caliber celebrity

[Piglord]

Why are people so infatuated with this guy. He's a B-list actor (if that even) who had one role on one show (a kids show at that) and people act like he is a Morgan Freeman caliber celebrity

I think the issue is that when he was no longer famous he tried becoming infamous. I think people like seeing shitty things happen to shitty people.