SAN MATEO COUNTY — Zachary Greenberg, who made information in February 2019 after he allegedly assaulted a Turning Level USA consultant on the UC Berkeley campus, might obtain prolonged jail time after he was convicted in an unrelated incident.
A San Mateo County jury discovered the 30-year outdated El Cerrito resident responsible of assault with a lethal weapon Friday, greater than two years after he was arrested for stabbing a person 5 instances throughout a combat outdoors of a Princeton-by-the-Sea restaurant, in accordance with court docket information.
In August 2020, as Greenberg and his girlfriend waited in line outdoors a Princeton-by-the-Sea restaurant, the sufferer requested the couple to maneuver out of his approach as he rode his bike on the sidewalk, in accordance with court docket paperwork. After Greenberg declined, a combat broke out between the 2 males. Greenberg ultimately stabbed the sufferer thrice within the head and twice within the torso with a folding knife. San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Greenberg close to the scene.
The sufferer survived after a week-long hospitalization.
Through the trial, Greenberg was “defiant,” in accordance with San Mateo County District Lawyer Stephen Wagstaffe. He mentioned Greenberg claimed that he had stabbed the person in self-defense and that the 2 males had been full strangers.
Jurors took 4 days to deliberate earlier than reaching their verdict.
A confrontation at a conservative group’s desk in UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza in February 2019 resulted in Greenberg’s arrest on suspicion of assault by means prone to produce nice bodily damage. That cost was nonetheless pending this week.
Greenberg was being held with out bail after the San Mateo County verdict. An extra court docket date is ready for Oct. 26, the place a jury will decide aggravating elements within the case. Greenberg shall be sentenced after that October court docket date.
Peter Arian, a protection lawyer for Greenberg, declined to remark Wednesday.