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An 18-year-old Linda Vista man has pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon. The man attacked was left partly paralyzed.
Duc Minh Hoang made his plea Tuesday before San Diego Superior Court Judge J. Perry Langford, who set sentencing for April 16.
Hoang could receive four years in state prison and a $10,000 fine. An attempted murder charge was dismissed.
The victim was Vincent Chirafisi, 24, who was attacked Sept. 11 by five youths after he objected to a loud party next door to his Paradise Hills apartment. Chirafisi was stabbed six times. According to court records, his wife, who was seven months’ pregnant at the time, also was attacked and beaten with a tree branch.
A second co-defendant, a 15-year-old youth, was acquitted in Juvenile Court after the Chirafisis couldn’t be positive about his identity.
Hoang remains free on his own recognizance.
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