Former Florida deputy takes plea deal, gets 3 years for trying to rape woman
Jason Nebergall will spend three years behind bars for 2016 attack
HE WOULD NEVER GO TO JAIL AT ALL. FORMER SHERIFF’S DEPUTY JASON NEBERGALL PLEADED GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED RAPE AND BATTERY CHARGES THURSDAY. FIVE YEARS AFTER HE ATTACKED AMANDA COLEMAN IN HER GREENACRES HOME WHILE WEARING HIS UNIRMFO AND WITH HIS HAND ON HIS G.UN >> ABSOLUTELY, I WAS IN FEAROR F MY LIFE. TERRI: COLEMAN DECIDED TO VEALRE HER IDENTITY PUBLICLLAY ST YEAR , TELLING ME IN SHE WAS NOVEMBER TERRIFIED NEBERGALL WAS GOING TO GO FREE. >> ALL I WANT IS JUSTICE, ALL THIS LEGAL TALK, I DON” UNDERSTAND. IT’S REALLY CONFUSING AND COMES DOWN TO LITTLE THINGS. TERRI: A JURY FOUND NEBERGALL GUILTY IN 1820. BUT AN APPEALS COURT OVERTURDNE HIS CONVICTION BECSEAU DURING THE TRIAL COLEMAN BLURTED OUT INFORMATION ABOUT DNA THE JUDGE D HAPREVIOUSLY RULED COULDN’T BE MENTIONED. NEBERGALL’S SECOND TRIALAS W SCHEDULED FOR LATER THIS MONTH, BUT HE TOOK A THREE YEAR PLEA DEAL INSTEAD AND IS NOW DESIGNATED A SEX OFFENDER, WHICH IS WHAT COLEMAN TOLD ME LAST YEAR SHE WAS HOPG INFOR. >> I JUST WANT THIS TO BE OV,ER — TO BE OR.VE TERRI: THE JUDGE SENTENCEDIM H TO TWO CONCURRENT THREE YEAR SENTENCES AND TO PAY COURT COSTS , ENDING A LONG JOURNETOY JUSTICE FOR COLEMAN. >> IT HAS BEEN VERY CONFUSING , IT’S BEEN A LONG ROAD AND I DON’T WANT THIS HAPPENINTOG ANYONE ELSE. TERRI: THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE DID FIRE NEBERGALL AFTER HIS FIRST CONVICTION. LAST YEAR, HIS FATHER, ALSAO DEPUTY, WAS SENTENCED TO 13 YEARS FOR THE FATAL SHOOTING OF HIS SON IN
Former Florida deputy takes plea deal, gets 3 years for trying to rape woman
Jason Nebergall will spend three years behind bars for 2016 attack
Former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy Jason Nebergall pleaded guilty to attempted rape and battery charges Thursday in a plea deal that will send him to prison for three years.Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo accepted the plea and sentenced Nebergall to three years for each count to run concurrently, with 43 days shaved off for time served.Nebergall will also be designated a sexual predator.The sheriff’s office fired him after his first conviction in 2018. That conviction and eight-year sentence were later overturned by an appeals court because of a statement made by the victim in court about DNA which the judge had ruled must stay out of evidence.Nebergall was set to go to trial in late July but took the plea instead.His attorney was not available for comment.
Former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy Jason Nebergall pleaded guilty to attempted rape and battery charges Thursday in a plea deal that will send him to prison for three years.
Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo accepted the plea and sentenced Nebergall to three years for each count to run concurrently, with 43 days shaved off for time served.
Nebergall will also be designated a sexual predator.
The sheriff’s office fired him after his first conviction in 2018. That conviction and eight-year sentence were later overturned by an appeals court because of a statement made by the victim in court about DNA which the judge had ruled must stay out of evidence.
Nebergall was set to go to trial in late July but took the plea instead.
His attorney was not available for comment.
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