Sentencing set for law school grad who pleaded guilty to beheading exotic bird
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A 25-year-old University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate is due for sentencing Wednesday after pleading guilty to beheading an exotic bird during a drunken chase at a Las Vegas Strip resort.
Justin Alexander Teixeira could get six months in boot camp and probation in a plea deal. Teixeira had been facing three felony counts in the October 2012 death of a helmeted guineafowl at the Flamingo.
Officials say security video shows Teixeira and two other Berkeley students chasing the chicken-sized bird before the body was found. The head was found in nearby rocks.
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The other students pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and were fined and sentenced to community service.
Teixeira pleaded guilty in May to a single felony killing another person's animal charge.