By Michelle Durand, Daily Journal
What does $1 get you?
Matthew Nguyen (Daily Journal)
If you’re Matthew Nguyen, that buck means two years in prison. The 22-year-old San Mateo man was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for robbing a teen girl of $1 after entering her backyard and pointing an Airsoft pistol through the window.
Nguyen pleaded no contest in July to robbery and admitting using a deadly weapon in return for no more than five years in prison. Prosecutors dropped other charges of assault and vandalism stemming from his alleged punching at an officer — he missed — and damage of the police station holding room after his arrest.
On Wednesday, Judge Jonathan Karesh opted for the lower term and terminated his probation in an earlier conviction which he violated with the new arrest.
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