Slick 50s Attack Gets Man 5 Years
A Slick 50s gang member whose attempted-murder conviction was overturned on appeal was sentenced Friday to five years in prison as part of a deal that avoided another trial.
Joshua Carlsen, 25, pleaded guilty in May to the 1998 beating and stabbing of an Aliso Viejo teen at a party. Defense attorney Allan Stokke said Carlsen would serve less than a year in prison with credit for time served.
In 2000, an Orange County Superior Court judge sentenced Carlsen to 11 years in prison. But a state appeals court overturned the conviction last year.
Carlsen was among five defendants convicted in an attack that seriously injured a 17-year-old boy, who was hit with a bottle and stabbed.
Prosecutors said the Slick 50s was a group of young men who dressed in vintage 1950s clothing and prowled south Orange County looking for trouble.
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