BOULDER, Colo.-
A man charged with a hate crime after a fight with two gay men has reached a tentative plea agreement, his attorney said.
Eric William Schorling, 21, is charged with a bias-motivated crime after a March 11 scuffle in downtown Boulder. Defense attorney Michael Cohen disclosed the tentative plea deal in a hearing Monday but afterward declined to discuss details.
Boulder County Court Judge Noel Blum scheduled an arraignment for June 1.
A second man, Adam Michael Perez, faces charges of assault and participating in a bias-motivated crime stemming from the same incident. Perez and Schorling are accused of attacking a 23-year-old man after making derogatory comments about his sexuality as he walked with his arm around another man.
Schorling, of Virginia, and Perez, of Colorado Springs, were students at the University of Colorado but were suspended after the incident.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
