Daly City man pleads no contest to attempted manslaughter for stabbing man with whom wife had affair

"We were asking for a good number of years, the judge put a seven year max on it, top on it,"

"(The prosecutor) felt that that would more than adequately cover it."

"(His wife) wanted the case to go away, so we figured we've got a charge that gives us the sentencing range the court wants, and that will adequately cover the conduct here for what we have in terms of the witnesses,"

Wilber Ismael Ortez Ramos, 37, pleaded no contest to attempted voluntary manslaughter and enhancements for great bodily injury and use of a deadly weapon. He attacked the man he found having an affair with his wife, using a knife while three young children watched. A judge previously found insufficient evidence to sustain attempted first-degree murder and premeditation allegations. Prosecutors originally sought a longer sentence but the court capped exposure at seven years in state prison. Child endangerment charges were dropped after the wife did not want prosecution to continue. The alleged victim accepted the seven-year outcome.

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