File photo of Raymond Davis. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
Raymond Allen Davis entered the plea in Douglas County District Court to misdemeanor third-degree assault and received a two-year probationary sentence, said Lisa Pinto, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
Pinto said Davis was also ordered to take anger management classes and write a letter of apology to the victim, Jeff Maes.
Davis, 38, was originally charged with second-degree felony assault in the altercation with Maes in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch in October 2011.
Officers were sent to a bagel store parking lot on reports of a fight between the two men, according to Douglas County Sheriff's spokesman Ron Hanavan.
Police said Davis started the fight and knocked Maes to the ground. He was arrested at the scene.
Maes has filed a civil lawsuit against Davis, saying he suffered two fractured vertebrae in the fight, along with emotional distress.
A US Army veteran and former special forces soldier, Davis made international headlines when he shot and killed two men whom he said were trying to rob him in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore in January 2011.
Davis, who was working in Pakistan at the time under a CIA contract with Xe Services, the controversial private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, said he acted in self-defense.
He was acquitted of murder and allowed to leave Pakistan after a $2.3 million payment was made to the men's families.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the time that the US government did not pay the "blood money" but would not reveal who did.
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Pakistan must has to learn the lesson from the Raymond Davis' punishment which seems impossible because US' diplomats can kill easily any one in Pakistan and in US they are punished even on beating any American.And recently two more US' diplomats are released easily and proudly by the shameless and conscienceless Pakistani leadership who killed two CDA's employees in Islamabad by their Land Cruiser.....
@zahid: "Think dear all pakistani, The man who killed 2 our pakistani citizens has been released with hounour and same person fought with an American citizen in US arrested by American police and the he is pleading of his guilty. After this news you decide that what is value of Pakistani citizens before American people."
The worth was made very clear. IT was the blood money paid to the family of the victims as per shariah. The issue is not Americans it is the shariah code which gives a way out to the rich to by their way out of a crime that it does not give poor people.
Shame on you,when he killed 2 of them and police intergorate like kids
Where are the holy knights of human rights, liberalism and secularism, threatening fire and brimstone and choking at the mouth because Davis – through an application of Islamic law, – has flown ?
The long hand of Aabpara can be detected – the ISI has had serious complaints about expanded CIA activities in Pakistan vis-e-vis less dollars doled out to Army Generals . It is not too farfetched to suppose that the Davis affair was an opportunity for increasing the rates for these services.
2 million dollars and some more of blood money, added to the prospect of American visas, is not something to scoff at in our parts.
Callous and cynical as it may sound, Pashtuns from Southern Part of KPk (DI Khan, Bannu, Lucky Marvat, Waziristan, Kohat) are killed, wantonly and cruelly, all the time and they get nothing. The victims of drone strikes in FATA certainly get nothing.
Better than anyone else the Americans know how things operate in Pakistan by using dollars. But thanks to Raymond Davis they had to go through a refresher course on this subject again as rates has increased manifold.
@Faisal: With due respect one would also like to know how many taliban your nation had tried in your esteemed courts. Any verdict to show the world your so called rule of the land. We firmly believe those slaughtered souls were also pakistanis.
Typical anti American blather. Heads up -- this guy was freed under Pakistani/Sharia law not American law. If you want to bash someone - look in the mirror.
@ Salman: I am not sure what should I do, weep or laugh at your this statement; Americans believe in rule of law, and do not follow the logic of ‘national interest’ much. There 'national interests' have ruined this entire planet mate. Where are you living these days?
Did the court ask him to go through a lie-detector-test, stating his real name, line of work and whether he had ever been abroad with a contract for performing professional tasks?
Old habits die hard :)......
That is why they promised to try this cold blodded murderer but did not. That is why American are killing everybody gets in their ambitions to take over the world. What a joke that American believe in rule of law.@Salman:
Americans believe in rule of law, and do not follow the logic of 'national interest' much. We should take examples from them. Rule of Law is the ultimate 'national interest'.
wow and he get away with two murders in Pakistan.
Think dear all pakistani, The man who killed 2 our pakistani citizens has been released with hounour and same person fought with an American citizen in US arrested by American police and the he is pleading of his guilty. After this news you decide that what is value of Pakistani citizens before American people.
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