This is awful. Fear of jail did not stop him assaulting his girlfriend Marci last Thanksgiving. What would stop him again? What are the terms of probation: if he leaves the state, even the country, what can they do? What will be the default sentence if he violates parole?
It's important he is declared guilty. That's finally a victory. But I don't understand. We give more time in jail for using drugs than we do for calculated violence this severe, with prior history? That does not make sense. That just doesn't. Not that jail is foolproof against further domestic violence, I must admit- there are always women who will fall for the stories of prisoners and even marry them.
About the hard staring. It is true that abusers use nonverbal body language to menance others. They know that those threats are harder to explain and prove since they may not be witnessed by others as the person has witnessed it. He is not sorry he did it, he is angry at Marci for surviving and reporting it. He wants to scare her. He wants to keep power, keep hurting her.
If you support abusive behavior to anybody, even if you don't like that person much, maybe think they deserved it, then your heart and head are wrong.
I would say that anybody who supports Reginald Redding after he pled guilty to this conduct needs to take a hard look at their own thinking and feeling. There's no room for reasonable doubt. He admitted to at least one of the charges. If you let him "explain" he will twist it up so nobody knows what to believe regarding his guilt or innocence. Those people are experts.
I was his student for one year, long ago. I wasn't entirely surprised to hear about this violent side of him, although he never showed anger in the classroom, he was moody. He did have brains and taught us a lot. His brains are exactly why he has eluded prison so long despite all the complaints filed against him, and also probably why he now will walk on probation.
But he's not smarter than all of us. I guarantee it.