By admin SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Prosecutors this week dismissed the case against a former Camp Pendleton Marine who pleaded guilty in connection with a deadly 2022 fight at Dana Point because the defendant died of a drug overdose.
Jack Griffin Isaacson, who was facing the crime of involuntary manslaughter, pleaded guilty on July 14, 2023 to committing a crime of battery and serious bodily harm. The verdict was to be handed down on July 12 this year, but the hearing was postponed due to the need to obtain documents confirming his death.
Isaacson died on June 3 in San Diego, where he lived with his father. The death certificate indicated that the cause of death was fentanyl and cocaine poisoning.
Before he died, sentencing was postponed for a technicality to allow the crime to be upgraded to a misdemeanor, his lawyer John Barnett said last year. Isaacson began serving six months of house arrest on August 10 last year.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Isaacson, who was stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time, punched Michael Terry, 38, of Laguna Niguel, who was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead the next day.
Deputies were dispatched to Beach Harbor Pizza at 34473 Golden Lantern in Dana Point around 7 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day 2022 when the two men got into a fight, sheriff’s officials said. Barnett said Terry was drunk and acting aggressively towards customers when he came into conflict with Isaacson, who is a boxer, Barnett said.
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