Mexican actor sentenced to five years for fatally punching man in Miami
Pablo Lyle, a telenovela star, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in October after 2019 road rage incident
A Mexican telenovela star and Netflix series actor received a five-year prison sentence Friday after punching a man to death during a road rage confrontation in Miami in 2019.
Pablo Lyle’s sentence came four years after he was charged with murder in the death of a man he struck during an encounter in traffic. A jury ultimately found Lyle guilty in October of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of 63-year-old Juan Ricardo Hernández.
The judge who presided over the case, Marisa Tinkler Mendez, handed Lyle the sentence after rejecting the 36-year-old actor’s request for a new trial.
Lyle, who appeared in the Netflix crime series Yankee, had faced a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison. He was also ordered to undergo eight years of probation, conflict resolution management and 500 hours of community service.
The actor has 30 days to appeal against his punishment. He has been detained since his 4 October conviction, and that time counts toward completing his sentence.
Dressed in a red jail uniform, Lyle looked calm and expressed repentance during the more than three-hour hearing before Tinkler Mendez gave him his sentence.
“I am very sorry,” Lyle said in Spanish, looking at some of the members of Hernández family who were in the courtroom, among them his son. “I always pray for him and for you, with all my heart.”
Hernández, who was unarmed, suffered a traumatic brain injury after Lyle punched him and died four days later while hospitalized. Read More…
