Garret Doty, the now 25-year-old homeless man who was accused of beating 54-year-old Donald Carmignani repeatedly over the head with a metal pipe on April 5, faced two counts of assault and one count of battery.
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Garrett Doty, the 24-year-old homeless man accused of smashing a former San Francisco fire commissioner in the head with a crowbar, was released after the allegedly failed to show up in court.
An attorney for a former San Francisco fire commissioner, who was beaten with a metal rod in the Marina District earlier this month, says the district attorney's office plans to drop charges against the man arrested in connection to this attack and that the beating was out of self-defense.
Lawyers for the former San Francisco fire commissioner hospitalized in early April in a pipe attack say prosecutors plan to drop charges against the suspect.