Jason Dean, a teacher and soccer coach charged with sexually assaulting a former middle school student, was willing to take responsibility for whatever he did if it meant less than 10 years in prison.
“My client was willing to take responsibility,” his attorney Nicole Blank Becker said during a Thursday Zoom hearing. “I believe the number was somewhere around seven years, Judge. I have indicated numerous times to the prosecutor that my client does not want to have put the victim through a trial.”
But Becker said the prosecution wouldn’t budge from a minimum of 10.5 years in prison, and, for inexplicable reasons, the judge’s nine-year Cobb's agreement was unacceptable.