Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio yesterday slapped a one-month prison term against habitual offender David Desebel Kapileo for beating up his wife. <\/p>\n
Kapileo, 47, pleaded guilty to the offense of assault and battery. In return, assistant attorney general Matthew Baisley, counsel for the government, agreed to dismiss the remaining charge of disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n
Kim-Tenorio accepted Kapileo\u2019s guilty plea and granted Baisley\u2019s motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n
Kim-Tenorio sentenced the defendant to one-year imprisonment, all suspended except one month.<\/p>\n
Kapileo was given credit for nine days of time served. After serving the prison term, he will be placed on probation for one year.<\/p>\n
Kapileo was ordered to undergo and complete alcohol abuse and anger management course, and pay a $100 in probation fee and $25 in court assessment fee.<\/p>\n
According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on March 23, 2016 on Saipan, Kapileo threatened to beat up his wife, then grabbed her by her face\/mouth with his hand. He then squeezed her face\/mouth, causing her to be afraid and to experience pain.<\/p>\n
Assistant public defender Michael Sato served as counsel for Kapileo.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho dismissed a case that charged Kapileo with criminal mischief for allegedly damaging a woman\u2019s case.<\/p>\n
Camacho dismissed the case after AAG Baisley and defendant\u2019s counsel, Sato, stipulated to the dismissal of the case.<\/p>\n
Last Aug. 11, Camacho found as too lenient the Office of the Attorney General\u2019s plea deal that recommends a 19-day prison term against Kapileo in the criminal mischief case. The judge rejected the plea agreement.<\/p>\n
Camacho noted, among other things, that Kapileo has been arrested several times since being released on the murder conviction.<\/p>\n
Kapileo fatally shot his mother with a gun at their house in Garapan in December1992, according to court records. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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