Ex-UFC champ Cain Velasquez out on bail in tried homicide case

Cain Velasquez was granted $1 million bail Tuesday after eight months in custody.

The previous UFC heavyweight champion is being charged with tried homicide and 10 different gun-related prices in Santa Clara County (Calif.). Velasquez is being accused of chasing down in his automobile and capturing at a person, Harry Goularte, who’s being charged with sexually assaulting Velasquez’s 4-year outdated son.

Velasquez should put on a GPS tracker and never come inside 300 yards of the alleged victims within the case, per Velasquez’s legal professional Mark Geragos.

“It has been a protracted slog and I’m very grateful,” Geragos informed ESPN. “Nothing is as touching as watching him having it sink in along with his spouse Michelle there.”

Velasquez, 40, had been in jail since Feb. 28 and pleaded not responsible in August. He was granted bail Tuesday by decide Arthur Bocanegra on the finish of a pre-trial listening to after beforehand having been denied bail 4 instances by decide Shelyna Brown. Velasquez allegedly shot Goularte’s step-father Paul Bender when he fired into the automobile Goularte was driving in. Bender sustained no severe accidents.

Velasquez adopted Goularte’s truck in his personal automobile on an “11-mile, high-speed chase” via the town of San Jose, rammed the truck and fired a 40-caliber handgun a number of instances into the truck, which carried Goularte, Bender and Goularte’s mom, Patricia, in response to the DA’s workplace. Bender was hit with a bullet, although he sustained non-life-threatening accidents.

Velasquez’s son informed police Feb. 24 that Goularte took him into the lavatory of a daycare middle and touched his genitals, per a courtroom doc. The kid stated Goularte stated to not inform anybody what occurred and that this example may need occurred “100 instances.” The kid informed police that they witnessed Goularte go into the lavatory with different youngsters, as effectively.

Geragos stated he having a listening to was key to Bocanegra making this determination. He stated he is unsure when the trial might be, however Velasquez may have an opportunity to go dwelling starting Tuesday.

“As a substitute of listening to all this hyperbole and nonsense bandied about, we had a listening to with cross examinations and witnesses underneath oath,” Geragos stated.