Judge Sends Message in Sentence for Attack on Gay

Two men were sentenced to County Jail on Friday for assaulting a gay man in Clairemont and breaking his leg in three places.

Aaron Patrick Graham, 18, and Michael S. Favreau, 20, were sentenced by Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd, who urged them to tell their companions to stop harassing the victim.

Mudd said that once released, the two men could help their friends by telling them “how great County Jail was.”

Graham was convicted Sept. 11 on one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon. A jury determined that he beat his next-door-neighbor, 37-year-old Marvin J. Grubb, on March 26. Grubb was hospitalized, his leg broken in three places.

Graham will be on probation for five years after serving nine months in jail.

Favreau was convicted by the same jury of one misdemeanor assault charge. He will serve 90 days in jail and will be on probation for three years.

Mudd also ordered Graham to pay a $10,000 fine, as well as paying for the Probation Department report. The judge said Graham must reimburse the county for the cost of his public defender, who “saved him from what should be happening to him.”

Deputy Dist. Atty. Luis Aragon originally charged the case as a hate crime, but the jury acquitted both men of that charge.

“We charged it as a hate crime,” Aragon said. “We believe it was a hate crime and I think the judge concurred.”