SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 45-year-old transient pleaded guilty Feb. 10 and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison for a violent robbery and carjacking in Placentia, but he will be freed because he has served that amount of time behind bars awaiting trial.
Michael Anthony Davis Jr. pleaded guilty to robbery, car theft, carjacking, false imprisonment, and battery with serious injury, all felonies. As part of the plea deal he accepted from Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner, sentencing enhancements for the personal use of a deadly weapon were dismissed.
Davis was originally charged with attempted murder with a sentencing enhancement for attempted premeditated murder, which would have made it a life-in-prison case, but those felonies were dismissed Oct. 17….