LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been found guilty in a second trial in the brutal beating and robbery a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student.
Late Wednesday night, a Lancaster County jury found 25-year-old James Price guilty of aiding and abetting robbery and first-degree assault. He faces up to 100 years in prison when he’s sentenced in August. Price’s first trial in 2016 ended in a hung jury.
A Texas man, 25-year-old Stelson Curry, is already serving 25 to 40 years for the attack on Patrick Pantoja.
Police say Pantoja and a fellow student were walking near the State Capitol to the UNL campus one October night in 2014 when they were attacked.
Pantoja spent a month in a coma and several more months in a hospital from the beating.