Actor Pablo Lyle, sentenced to 5 years in prison

And court of first instance of Miami has dictated this Friday a five-year prison sentence and eight years on probation for the Mexican actor Pablo Lylewho was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for beating and causing the death of a citizen of Cuban origin during a traffic dispute.

The protagonist of soap operas such as ‘Mirreyes vs Godínez’, who faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prisonhas finally been sentenced to five years in prison for beating and causing the death of a 63-year-old Cuban citizen in Miami-Dade County, Florida, during a traffic dispute in March 2019.

The judge in charge of the case, Marisa Tinkler, has also imposed 100 hours of community work and attendance at a anger management course In addition, it has confirmed that the time that the actor has spent in prison awaiting sentencing will be taken into account.

Lylem who was declared culpable Last October 2022, until then he had been under house arrest in Miami, although after the verdict he has spent the last few months in prison.

Since the beginning of the judicial process, the lawyers of the actor defended that he defendant acted in self-defense however, this argument was rejected by the magistrates.

“He did not act out of fear but out of character and anger, I do not believe that this is Pablo Lyle’s true character, but it was that day. This is not an instinct. The court thinks that Mr. Lyle acted with the intention of confront to Mr. Hernández”, the judge argued in statements collected by the newspaper ‘El Financiero’.

According to the Mexican media outlet ‘Milenio’, the soap opera actor punched al citizen of Cuban origin who he would die four days later in a hospital center due to a brain injury, an incident that was recorded by security cameras.