*A Manhattan criminal court judge has rejected Jonathan Majors‘ request to overturn his conviction in his domestic violence case.
Majors could spend up to a year in prison following his 2023 conviction for assault and harassment against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. His sentencing is scheduled for Monday, April 8.
The actor was convicted of third-degree reckless assault, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harassment, a violation, per The Hollywood Reporter. Majors was found not guilty of third-degree intentional assault and not guilty of second-degree aggravated harassment. He faces up to a year in jail on the two counts.
When rejecting Majors’ bid to overturn his conviction, Judge Michael Gaffey stated that “there was sufficient evidence to suggest that the Defendant behaved recklessly” during the March 2023 incident with Jabbari.
Legal experts say that Majors is not likely to get jail time.
“Since it’s the defendant’s first conviction, although technically he faces one year of jail, the judge will 99 percent give him three years probation, anger management and possibly some community service,” said Cary London, a Manhattan-based civil rights and criminal defense attorney at Shulman & Hill, per THR.
London added, “Mr. Majors is not getting jail time.”
Several supporters of the “Creed III” star have noted the peculiarity of a misdemeanor case such as this one going to trial, which London called “extremely rare.”
“Unlike in most misdemeanor cases, Majors was likely guided by the public and media perception of the charges against him and hoped that a public trial rather than a plea deal would clear his name,” said Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Kate Mangels, per THR.
“This is a case that normally would have been resolved without much fanfare or consequence that instead took on a life of its own, as is often the case,” said famed criminal defense lawyer Mark Geragos.
We reported earlier that Marvel dropped Majors as Kang the Conqueror after he was set to play the supervillain in “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,” which is slated to premiere in 2026.
He appeared as Kang in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in Feb. 2023 and the “Loki” series on Disney+.
Majors’ army recruiting ads were also shelved following Monday’s guilty verdict.
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