A judge sentenced a 22-year-old man today to serve 14 years in state prison for brandishing a gun toward a Brawley police officer earlier this year.
Gerardo Miguel Gonzalez sat expressionless next to his defense attorney John Breeze as Imperial County Superior Court Judge Barrett J. Foerster denied his motion to strike a sentencing enhancement that would lengthen his prison term by 10 years.
Gonzalez had been convicted of assaulting a peace officer with a gun. Gonzalez, who is in custody, was twice wounded during an officer-involved shooting March 29 behind the Garcia's Market in Brawley.
Breeze argued that his client had found Gonzalez not guilty of using a gun in an alleged attempt to kill a Brawley Police officer, but convicted him in a separate finding of using a gun to assault the officer.
Breeze's vigorous argument failed to persuade Foerster, who referred to a portion of a probation report that described how the defendant reached into the bag and took out a gun when a Brawley Police officer asked him what was inside of it that night behind a well-known business in Brawley.
By SILVIO J. PANTA, staff writer

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