Sometimes statutes require courts to decide "medical" issues. Like this one. What's a "coma"?
The Court of Appeal answers the question. It's a Glasgow Coma Scale of 8 or less. Here, the victim had a score of 9. So it's not a coma, so there's not an extra five years.
I'll nonetheless say that it was still a terrible beating. Just terrible. So even though Delgado gets five years off his sentence, he still has to do 23+ years in prison.
Though take a look at what his co-defendant, Romero, did. Even worse. I don't know what Romero's sentence was. But 75 years would seem about right to me.
