A jury in South San Francisco Thursday found Paul Wayne King guilty of manslaughter and a hate crime after hearing evidence that he knocked a black man to the ground with a punch outside a Redwood City bar, causing a fatal head injury, because that man was drinking with two white women.
The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for a day and a half before finding King, 38, guilty of one count of involuntary manslaughter, one count of battery causing great bodily injury, and one count of a civil rights violations.
A special allegation that the battery occurred because of the victim's race was found to be true, while a special allegation that the defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury in the civil rights violation was found to be not true.
King became teary-eyed as the verdicts were read, as did his defense attorney Connie O'Brien. The Redwood City resident has several prior strikes in addition to Thursday's conviction, and faces life in prison.
Prosecutors said that on the night of Dec. 11, 1999, King lured the victim, Brad Davis, outside the bar Shooters by behaving in a friendly manner, and then
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