The following is a press release issued by the Mendocino County District Attorney:
A Mendocino County jury empaneled in the Ten Mile Courthouse in Fort Bragg returned from its deliberations Thursday to announce it has reached guilty verdicts against the trial defendant.
Defendant Brandon Lundy McClintic, age 46, of Fort Bragg, was convicted of one substantive count of felony Assault by Means of Force Likely to Cause Great Bodily Injury and a second substantive count of misdemeanor Battery.
Applicable to the felony conviction, the jury also found true a special allegation alleging that it wasn’t just likely that great bodily injury could be inflicted, but that is was true that the defendant actually and personally did inflict great bodily injury on the victim in May 2022 outside Patterson’s Pub in Mendocino.
Why this case went to trial is anybody’s guess, especially since the unprovoked attack by defendant McClintic was captured on and recovered by law enforcement from the security surveillance system guarding Patterson’s Pub.
The defendant’s two convictions and the true finding were referred to the Adult Probation Department for the preparation of a written background study and sentencing recommendation.
The defendant was ordered to return to the Ten Mile courtroom for his sentencing hearing on September 4, 2024 at 9 o’clock in the morning.
The infliction of GBI finding by the jury makes defendant McClintic ineligible by law for a grant of supervised probation unless the court makes express findings on the record that the circumstances of this case are unusual and the interests of justice are best served by a sentence granting probation versus a state prison commitment.
The infliction of GBI finding also legally characterizes this crime as a violent conviction for purposes of reduced presentence custody credits and reduced early release on parole credits if a state prison sentence is imposed.
This conviction constitutes a Strike conviction, within the meaning of the voter-modified Three Strike Law, meaning it will enhance any additional felony that the defendant may commit in the future.
The law enforcement agency that interviewed witnesses and gathered the evidence presented at this week’s trial was the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
The prosecutor who presented the People’s evidence to the jury was Deputy District Attorney David Moutrie.
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Clayton Brennan presided over the jury trial and will be the bench officer responsible for sentencing on September 4th.
