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| Inmate's Sentence Extended for Second Case of Assaulting Officer |
| By Bakersfield Californian |
| Published: 03/18/2003 |
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A man convicted of punching an officer for the second time was sentenced to 26 years in prison recently. Michael Joseph Nurse, 27, received an additional 14 years on top of the 12 years he was already serving for prior battery convictions, according to Deputy Public Defender Dale Armitage. This will be Nurse's second felony conviction under the three-strikes law, Armitage said. On Nov. 6, sheriff's Deputy Shawna Garrett and another officer were getting ready to take Nurse from Lerdo Jail to Kern County Superior Court. He was to be tried for assault of a prison officer and violently resisting arrest stemming from a Jan. 10, 2001, incident at Delano prison. As Garrett was taking Nurse out of his cell for trial, he punched her, deputies said. Garrett was knocked to the ground and hospitalized with a broken nose, cut lip and a concussion. For attacking Garrett, Nurse was convicted of battery by a prisoner, battery on a peace officer and obstruction of justice. In November, a jury convicted Nurse of both charges in the 2001 Delano incident. He was sentenced to two years in prison last December for those charges. Nurse was already serving a 10-year sentence for battery before the Delano assault, Armitage said. Nurse has been hospitalized for psychiatric problems in the past and has said he wanted to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital. |
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