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Former youth soccer coach in Richmond faces trial in referee's beating
Former youth soccer coach in Richmond faces trial in referee's beating
Former youth soccer coach in Richmond faces trial in referee's beating
Henry Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 10, 2005
A former Richmond youth soccer coach accused of beating a referee at an Albany match rejected a plea bargain offer Thursday of six months in jail, setting the stage for an April trial.
Mauricio Alvarez, 33, of Berkeley declined to comment as he strode out of an Oakland courtroom with his attorney, Angela Greene, who maintained that her client was not responsible for beating referee Bruce Greenlee on Nov. 20.
"It was mistaken identity-that's our defense," she said outside court. "He didn't do it. It happened, but my client didn't do it."
Prosecutors have lodged two misdemeanor charges of battery against a sports official and battery on school or park grounds for the incident during a match between Alvarez's team, the Richmond Cabritos, and the El Cerrito Hurricane.
Alvarez allegedly kicked and punched Greenlee after the referee forced his team to forfeit when it could not verify the age of a child playing goalie in an under-10 tournament.
Though Alvarez denies being the assailant, Greenlee, 59, of Richmond said Thursday he was "100 percent" sure Alvarez was his attacker, having viewed television footage of the defendant from an earlier court appearance.
Defendants charged with misdemeanors are not required to personally appear in court. But Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carol Brosnahan last month ordered Alvarez to appear in court Thursday.
A pre-trial hearing is set for April 7, and the trial is scheduled to begin April 15 unless prosecutors make another plea bargain offer, Greene said.
The defense attorney said she provided prosecutors with statements on Wednesday from witnesses who said someone else attacked Greenlee. "We will fight this aggressively at trial," Greene said.
Greene accused Greenlee of having discriminated against Latino teams by demanding to see the required registration cards for all of the players - an allegation Greenless flatly denied. "I ask for player passes in all cases, for all teams, regardless of the ethnicity of the team, he said. "That's our rule."
Despite having no doubt in his mind as to the identity of his assailant, Greenlee said he believed sentencing him to six months in jail is "way too much."
"Frankly, I think a reasonable resolution here would be like a weekend or two in jail and community service-as long as it doesn't involve working with children-and the surrender of all of his soccer-related credentials," Greenlee said. "My main concern is that he never step on a soccer field again."
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
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