Nico Gallo appealed his 10 year sentence, but the court wouldn’t bite. At the time of his crime, he was high on drugs that the trial judge said made him “psychically violent with super-human strength.” Photo: Florida Department of Corrections.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal declined to rehear a “disturbing” case, ruling prosecutors had been generous enough with Martin County man Nico Gallo, whose hallucinogenic drug binge saw him “cannonball” through a stranger’s living room window, attack a mother and son, and try to drink his own blood.
Gallo — a 19-year-old with no criminal history when he broke in — pleaded guilty to trespassing, battery on a police officer, resisting arrest with violence and criminal mischief. He’d asked the court to reconsider his 10-year sentence, which he deemed constitutionally inappropriate.
