NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Retired New York Rangers Sean Avery was found guilty on Thursday for using a scooter to hit a car that was blocking a bike lane in Greenwich Village on Feb. 23, 2019.
After a two-day trial, Avery, 42, a retired NHL player, was sentenced to time served in Manhattan court. He had initially said he was going to represent himself but hired criminal defense attorney Jason Goldman.
“If I need to be the poster boy for defending the bike lanes, I will absolutely do that. We need to be able to just bike in freedom,” Avery told the New York Post in 2019.
Avery hit the side door of venture capitalist Jonathan Schulhof's car, bashing it with his scooter at East Eighth Street and Broadway.
Schulhof testified before Judge Marisol Martinez-Alonso Wednesday about the incident and the judge also issued orders of protection for all complaining witnesses.
Schulhof told the judge that “a very agitated person started screaming vulgarities at me and just telling me, you know, ‘Why don’t you watch where the 'eff you’re going,” New York Post reported.
Schulhof, who was in the car with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, said that Avery cursed him out but “it was very startling, so I don’t really have a great record of exactly what he said.”
After the encounter, Schulhof “heard what sounded like a stick of dynamite go off, a really loud boom, and felt the car shaking.”
There was a “quarter-sized hole” in the door of the car next to where Schulhof’s four-year-old daughter was sitting, he said.
Prosecutors offered plea deals, but Avery did not accept them and instead asked for a trial.
He had been facing up to three months in prison.
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