{"id":228946,"date":"2017-03-21T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=228946"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:42:07","slug":"war-machine-found-guilty-29-34-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/war-machine\/war-machine-found-guilty-29-34-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-fighter War Machine found guilty on 29 of 34 charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, the trial of Bellator and UFC veteran War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver) has dominated headlines. This trial stemmed from a grisly 2014 incident, during which the former fighter brutalized ex-girlfriend Christy Mac and her then boyfriend Corey Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>After several weeks of court proceedings, during which many <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/war-machine\/detective-war-machine-attack-christy-mack-couldnt-speak-didnt-teeth\/\">horrifying details<\/a> about War Machine&#8217;s attack on Mack and Thomas were revealed, the former fighter has now been found guilty on 29 of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/war-machine\/list-34-charges-war-machine-facing-alleged-incident-involving-christy-mack\/\">the 34 charges he faced<\/a> \u00a0\u2013 most notably of\u00a0sexual assault, battery and kidnapping. The most severe charges he faced \u2013 a pair of attempted murder charges \u2013 resulted in a hung jury, meaning the jury was unable to agree on a guilty or not guilty verdict. This in turn, implies a mistrial.<\/p>\n<p>War Machine&#8217;s sentencing is expected to occur on June 5, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>War Machine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/war-machine\/christy-mack-in-war-machine-trial-he-said-now-i-have-to-take-you-into-the-desert-and-kill-you\/\">terrifying 2014 attack on Mack and Thomas<\/a> left Mack with\u00a0a broken nose, a fractured eye socket, a broken rib, a lacerated liver and extensive bruising. She was also left without many of her teeth, which initially made it difficult for her to recount the details of this horrific incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I just couldn\u2019t understand what she was saying but it was because she didn\u2019t have teeth,\u201d Detective Daniel Tomaino said during the trial.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>War Machine also assaulted Thomas with such severity that Mack believed the former fighter was going to kill him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cJon was beating Corey, and then at some point he began choking him,\u201d Mack said.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cYes I did,\u201d she continued, when asked if she believed War Machine was going to kill Thomas.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mack also claimed that the ex-fighter threatened to send his friends after her if he ended up in jail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHe said he would send his Navy SEAL friends or Hells Angels after me and my family if he ever went to jail.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you glad to see War Machine get his just deserts? 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After several weeks of court proceedings, during which many horrifying details about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":147452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19625],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-fighter War Machine found guilty on 29 of 34 charges | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After many days of court proceedings, former fighter War Machine has been found guilty on the 29 of the 34 charges he faced for brutalizing Christy Mack.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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