Law grad gets 6 months in prison 'boot camp' for beheading Vegas casino's exotic bird
A helmeted guinea fowl. Image from Shutterstock.
A law graduate of the University of California at Berkeley has been sentenced to spend 190 days in a Nevada state prison “boot camp” for beheading an exotic bird at a Las Vegas Strip casino last October, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Justin Teixeira, 25, pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of killing another person’s animal, but can avoid having a felony conviction on his record by successfully completing his sentence and three to five years of probation. At that point, he can withdraw the felony plea and be convicted of a misdemeanor.
Two other students at the law school, who also chased the bird—a 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl known as Turk—at the Flamingo Hotel last year but apparently didn’t intend to kill him took misdemeanor pleas in the case.
“It was just a drunk, stupid decision to go and chase the bird,” chief deputy district attorney Frank Coumou said. “Unfortunately, Teixeira took it a step further on his own.”
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