The Burlingame man accused of deliberately trying to murder an acquaintance who he had a long-standing feud with is walking free today.
Jose Alexander Granados, 26, pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon. He agreed to the plea offer rather than face a potential life sentence if convicted of attempted murder with premeditation. He was immediately sentenced by Judge James Ellis to 364 days in the county jail but has credit for 441 days already served. He will spend three years on supervised probation and must pay restitution to the victim, Sean Gadson.
If Granados had been sentenced to at least one year in jail he would be more likely to face deportation, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Attempted murder typically carries a maximum seven-year sentence but the premeditation aspect would have bumped it up to a possible life term. Granados has a prior felony conviction, too, which would have doubled an attempted murder sentence to 14 years to life.
Granados allegedly stabbed 37-year-old Gadson of San Mateo in the chest Oct. 21. Granados reportedly walked up to Gadson with a knife on Cary Avenue and attacked him just after 8 p.m. Granados fled but was arrested the next week at a construction site in San Francisco.
Gadson was released from a hospital the day after the assault and subsequently arrested for an unrelated robbery charge. He was later convicted.
Gadson and Granados have a history of assaulting each other, according to San Mateo police reports. Granados also has a criminal history. In 1997, he pleaded no contest to firing a weapon at a house and spent three years in prison. He was arrested for that offense while on bail for a drug possession charge.
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