Man sentenced for knocking man, 70, off bike in La Crosse, Wis.

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Man sentenced for knocking man, 70, off bike in La Crosse, Wis.

September 18, 2008
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS

LA CROSSE, Wis. . A man convicted of knocking a 70-year-old off
a bike with a plastic gas can has been sentenced to seven years
in prison.

Michael Brown, of La Crosse, will then serve four years on
extended supervision and three years of probation consecutively
for felony aggravated battery and robbery as a habitual criminal.

La Crosse County Judge Dale Pasell says the 27-year-old hasn.t
shown remorse for the July 2007 attack. He says an August 2007
battery charge from an assault on a jail inmate demonstrates a
violent nature.

The complaint says the bicyclist was en route to a haircut, when
Brown hit him in the face with a gas can.

Brown allegedly struck the man again with the can and punched him
in the head before stealing the bike.

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Kristian Zoerhoff