(AP) — A 25-year-old Omaha man is scheduled to be sentenced next month for stabbing two men outside a neighborhood house party in Lincoln.
Online court records say Joshua Ballew was convicted on Friday of four counts of assault and two weapons counts. His sentencing hearing is set for Sept. 11. An Aug. 21 hearing is scheduled to determine whether Ballew will be sentenced as a habitual criminal.
Records say Tyler Waddell and Marshall Mock were stabbed around 2 a.m. on March 10, 2012, after a fight broke out in front of a house. The two identified Ballew as their assailant. Ballew’s attorney said the men were wrong, because Ballew was trying to break up the fight.