Jonathan Majors’ legal team gets his sentencing delayed
Jonathan Majors' legal team filed a motion that postponed his sentencing until April
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Jonathan Majors’ sentencing has been postponed until April 8, according to Deadline. Majors was convicted of reckless assault and harassment in December, and was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday. Instead, his legal team filed a motion to set aside the verdict. Prosecutors from the District Attorney’s office have a month to respond to the defense, while the judge said he’d make a ruling on the motion by April 1, ahead of the final sentencing.
When his sentencing does occur, Majors faces up to a year in prison, though as a first-time offender, he’s probably more likely to end up with probation. What’s less likely is that he’ll be able to stage a Hollywood comeback, at least in the immediate aftermath of the trial. He’s already been dropped from his major roles (as Marvel villain Kang the Conqueror and a Dennis Rodman biopic), and the pre-sentencing interview with ABC News didn’t help matters. In fact, Hollywood PR experts described the interview as a “really bad mistake” in a new piece from The Los Angeles Times.
“That interview tremendously undercut his credibility,” said Nathan Miller, founder of the crisis management firm Miller Ink. “There’s ways of denying you committed physical assault but also acknowledging the complexities of the situation that shows responsibility. The public doesn’t like it when they think someone is being evasive and makes themselves a victim.”
In particular, online critics and PR experts alike have questioned Majors’ insistence on comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr. Damning recordings were played in court in which Majors called himself a “great man” to his accuser, ex Grace Jabbari, and insisted she needed to be more like Coretta Scott King or Michelle Obama. In his ABC News interview, the actor doubled down, defending his choice to ask that of Jabbari and even going so far as to say his current girlfriend, Meagan Good, is akin to Coretta. The comparison “suggests just how out of touch he is with what is happening to him at this moment,” Mark Anthony Neal, chair of the African and African American studies department at Duke University, told The L.A. Times.
“If his people thought they could create a shift in his public image, they miscalculated,” said entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II. “They created another situation where he could be judged, prosecuted and assessed. He didn’t deliver what he intended.”
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Marvel should just keep him and claim he is a different Jonathan Majors from a universe where he wasn’t convicted.
lol they couldn’t find a universe where he wasn’t a violent creep i guess?
Given an infinite number of universes, there is a non-zero probability that there is one in which he is a really good guy. In theory.
I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t this just basically postponing the inevitable?
You know anyone in a rush to go to jail?
“In his belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.”
Personally, if I knew it was unavoidable, I’d just was to get it over with. The sooner you’re in, the sooner you’re out.
one way or the other
You only do two days
*thinks about making incredibly tasteless joke about things that happens in prison, restrains self*
…”speaking of being restrained in prison…”
“Great men deserve greatly-reduced sentences!” – Jonathan Majors’ lawyer, probably
“she needed to be more like…Michelle Obama”
What, have nicer arms?
The response should have been: “Yeah, I’ll be more like Coretta Scott King or Michelle Obama if YOU were more like Martin Luther King or Barack Obama! Great man, my ass!”
I dunno about Obama, but King fooled around, didn’t he?
i like the idea of the only thing someone knowing about mlk is that he fooled around.
Well, if that’s meant to suggest that’s all I know about mlk . . . who gives a shit? I don’t know you.
I’d buy it that the KCS knew only that fun fact about the man.
“If his people thought they could create a shift in his public image, they miscalculated” is a professional way of saying, “Oh honey, no.”
“The public doesn’t like it when they think someone is being evasive and makes themselves a victim.”The Root tried to make Majors the victim because they are racist women hating psychos. Luckily they are bad writers who no one respects so it didn’t work.
> he’d make a ruling on the motion by April 1
Judge: Mr. Majors, I’m completely dropping the previous verdict and you are free to go with the court’s apologies. Your good name has been restored.
Majors: Awesome!
Judge: APRIL FOOLS!!! Nah, you’re going to jail, dipshit.