Gurbaksh Chahal, the tech wunderkind who got fired from his CEO job for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, has managed to avoid jail so far. But that could change on Friday.
Chahal will be sentenced on Friday in a San Francisco court for violating his probation in a second assault, a year after the first one.
The former tech CEO had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor assault charges from the original 2013 assault. He paid a fine, lost his job as CEO of the marketing tech company RadiumOne, and went on probation.
But in 2014, he was accused of assaulting another woman. Just last month, on July 22, Judge Tracie Brown of the San Francisco Supreme Court ruled that Chahal’s second assault had violated his probation from the first assault.
Now Chahal faces sentencing for misdemeanor charges related to the second assault. He could be sentenced for up to a year.
He originally faced 47 felony assault charges in the 2013 incidents, and a video showed him hitting his girlfriend 117 times. But the video was ruled inadmissable because it was illegally seized by police. So the charges were downgraded to two misdemeanors.
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