EVERETT — The alleged ringleader of a violent robbery in Monroe that left a man clinging to life in 2015 didn’t want to roll the dice with another jury.
Prosecutors also were persuaded to avoid a second trial, based mainly on input from the victim and his father. The family didn’t want to go through the stress again. The victim suffered severe head injuries during the beating, leaving him with lifelong medical issues.
Jordan Jensen-Green, 33, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon and second-degree assault. He was sentenced Thursday to 6½ years in prison.
A three-week trial earlier this summer ended in a hung jury. Jurors were deadlocked, 11-1 to convict, after two days of deliberations.
Jensen-Green declined to address the judge Thursday. At trial, his attorney, Carlos Gonzales, had argued that Jensen-Green wasn’t part of the Sept. 18. 2015, beating and shooting at a garage in Monroe.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Toni Montgomery alleged that Jensen-Green orchestrated the heist because he believed the victim had stolen his trailer. Jurors were told he recruited several other men to help him get the trailer back. He was accused of clobbering the victim with a baseball bat. He also stole the victim’s truck. Another man shot the victim in the groin.
That man claimed he had fired a warning shot into the air and the bullet ricocheted off the garage, traveled through a wall and hit the severely injured man.
The victim was in a coma for more than two weeks and hospitalized for months.
In exchange for Jensen-Green’s guilty plea, prosecutors reduced the first-degree assault charge and dropped a burglary charge and a firearm enhancement. That spared Jensen-Green years in prison. He agreed to a high-end sentence.
Superior Court Judge Linda Krese said she listened to the evidence at trial and she was persuaded that Jensen-Green had some involvement in the attack.
The victim, she said, is going to be paying for the violence against him for the rest of his life.
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com.
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