A 21-year-old former Marine from San Diego reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Friday in connection with a St. Patrick’s Day fight that killed a man.
Jack Griffin Isaacson, who had been facing a count of involuntary manslaughter, pleaded guilty to a felony count of battery with serious bodily injury. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 12 of next year.
Sentencing was postponed for technical reasons to allow the felony count ultimately to be reduced to a misdemeanor, his attorney John Barnett said.
Isaacson will begin serving a six-month term of home confinement on Aug. 10.
The defendant, who had been stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time, punched 38-year-old Michael Terry of Laguna Niguel during a fight at a Dana Point pizza place on St. Patrick’s Day evening in 2022, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
Terry was rushed to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead the next day.
Barnett said Terry was drunk and acting aggressively toward customers when Isaacson, who is a boxer, entered the fray.
“He’s remorseful (that) a death resulted from this,” the attorney said.
– City News Service
