SIMI VALLEY : Man to Be Sentenced for Assault at Rally
A Santa Monica man has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge for throwing a soda can during a white supremacist rally in Simi Valley.
Steve Moss, 23, entered the plea Thursday after Ventura County Municipal Judge John E. Dobroth agreed to sentence him to no more than 30 days in jail. The maximum sentence could have been one year.
Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 22.
Moss was one of six counterdemonstrators arrested at the white supremacist rally June 6. He was originally charged with felony assault, but another judge ruled last month that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the felony charge.
The other cases were dismissed or reduced to misdemeanors.
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