Bryan Stow Recovery Continues

Translated: Stow will see $4.5 million, before taxes, which will then be immediately turned over to hospitals and rehabilitation clinics. Still, it’s a better result than counting on the generosity of Tim Flannery to fix everything.

McCourt was also named in the suit, but he was not found liable for any of the damages.

Depending on your perspective, what you’re about to see is either truly uplifting or gravely depressing. What you’re about to see is footage of Bryan Stow - the Giants fan, father and paramedic savagely beaten outside Dodger Stadium last March - speaking on camera for the first time since the assault.

Speaking is progress. Progress is good. Progress is healing. There is absolutely no question that Bryan Stow is getting better. But he’s getting better slowly, as is the standard course of action for these things, and he will get better only to a point. Just where that point is, it’s impossible to predict, but listen to the report. Listen to the details, and listen to the doctors. As Ronnie Polidoro passes along:

Good news about Bryan Stow’s condition broke over the weekend. He was able to move his arms and legs and puckered his lips when his family visited him over the weekend. His family released a statement over the weekend on these developments (h/t Hardball Talk):

Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, Stow’s alleged attackers, will be in court on Aug. 10 for their arraignment on charges of mayhem, assault and battery.

Monday morning, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood were expected to face arraignment proceedings for their role in the Opening Night Dodger Stadium assault that left Bryan Stow in a coma with significant brain injury. However, the absence of someone’s attorney has forced a delay of the arraignment until August 10. Sanchez and Norwood were arrested last Thursday and charged on Friday with a variety of crimes including mayhem, assault and multiple counts of battery.

Whenever the arraignment finally takes place, the two defendants will enter their respective please to the crimes. Both are charge with single counts of mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury. Additionally, Sanchez has been charged with two additional misdemeanor batteries for his attacks on other fans that day.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney formally filed charges on Friday against Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood in connection with the assault on Bryan Stow. Sanchez and Norwood were arrested Thursday afternoon after new evidence connected them to the assault and exonerated previous suspect Giovanni Ramirez.

Sanchez and Norwood have been charged with three felonies in the case including one count of mayhem, one count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and one count of battery with serious bodily injury. Sanchez was also charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery. If convicted, Sanchez faces up to nine years in prison while Norwood faces eight years in prison. They remain in custody facing bail of $500,000.

Two more suspects were reportedly arrested in connection with the brutal beating of Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day and the initial suspect, Giovanni Ramirez, will reportedly be exonerated as a result. Ramirez has been held since late May, when police took him in custody in connection with Stow’s beating. He’s been incarcerated ever since after police discovered a gun in his residence, violating the terms of his parole. And though the two suspects haven’t been named yet, more information about how the investigation has evolved is beginning to trickle out.

While the defense didn’t outright say it unearthed evidence that suggested Ramirez was innocent, they did hint at doing their own digging that may have led to Thursday’s arrests.

The case of the Dodger Stadium beating that left Bryan Stow hospitalized in very serious condition took another turn on Thursday, when the Los Angeles Times reported two suspects were arrested and Giovanni Ramirez, the initial suspect in the case, was exonerated. Ramirez was taken into custody in connection with Stow’s beating in May, but police have struggled to build a case since.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the attorney for Ramirez had yet to hear any official word on the case, but he has maintained his client was innocent:

San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, who was brutally beaten on Opening Day at Dodger Stadium, and his family got some good news today -- his condition was upgraded from critical to serious:

While I am no expert in brain injuries, the fact that Stow has been able to follow some basic commands likely means that he will eventually be able to recover from the beating.

As the wheels of justice grind slowly in the case of Bryan Stow’s beating, his family is bringing its own case: CSN Bay Area reports that Stow’s family will sue the Los Angeles Dodgers for exposing him to “criminal acts” for the team’s role in a March incident that left Stow in a coma.

Attorney Thomas V. Girardi is representing the Stow family in the suit that is expected to be filed before noon Tuesday. The lawsuit will reportedly test the Dodgers’ liability for the attack, stating that it took 15 minutes for stadium personnel to respond when they were notified of the beating.In April, the Dodgers and Giants issued a joint statement on Stow’s beating that included the statements “This attack is unconscionable behavior that will not be tolerated in either of our ballparks or in either of our cities” and “Public safety is the top priority for all of us and even one act of random violence is unacceptable.”

One suspect remains behind bars in the case of Bryan Stow, a Giants fan viciously beaten outside a Dodgers game in March. But Los Angeles police are still searching for two suspects in Stow’s beating, according to the Los Angeles Times, though a snag in the release of information about the first suspect may have damaged the investigation.

The arrest of Giovanni Ramirez on Sunday was the first major break in Stow’s case, but police are still looking for a man who allegedly joined Ramirez in brutally beating Stow, and a woman who allegedly served as their getaway driver.

Los Angeles police were able to apprehend one of the suspected attackers in the Bryan Stow case thanks to a tip from a parole agent, reports the Los Angeles Times. From that, the LAPD was able to obtain a warrant to take the suspect into custody.

While the police received numerous tips that failed to lead to a breakthrough in the case, eventually a parole officer informed the police that he believed one of his parolees may have been the alleged assaulter. At this time though, the police have neither revealed how that tip led to an arrest nor why the parole officer believed his client may have been involved in the beating.

At about 7 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team descended on an East Hollywood apartment building with a warrant in hand. According to apartment building manager Maritza Camacho, police, using loudspeakers and with guns drawn, called out to the occupants of Apartment 25. Inside was one of the men police suspect in the March 31 beating that left Stow with brain damage.This news comes a week after Stow was transferred from a Los Angeles hospital to San Francisco General Hospital. Stow’s doctors are “hopeful, but realistic” about his chances at recovery, and report that his seizures have slowed, leading to Stow being taken off one of his five seizure medications. Stow’s family maintains a blog to keep up with his condition.

For more on Bryan Stow, visit SB Nation’s Giants blog McCovey Chronicles, Dodgers blog True Blue LA, and regional sites SB Nation Los Angeles and SB Nation Bay Area.