MIAMI — Pablo Lyle, the Mexican telenovela star who fatally punched a man during a 2019 road-rage confrontation, was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday.
Lyle, 36, was facing up to 15 years in prison after he was convicted of manslaughter in October. He was caught on camera throwing his fist at Juan Ricardo Hernandez, 63, at a Miami intersection in March 2019. Hernandez fell, cracked his head on the roadway and died at the hospital four days later.
The state, at the Hernandez family’s request, asked for Lyle to receive 15 years in prison — the maximum sentence permitted for the charge. Defense attorneys urged the court to sentence Lyle to a year and a day, the recommendation in a probation officer’s report.
