Brian Calhoun, former Fresno City College instructor learned his fate this morning as he was sentenced to three years probation, 90 days in the adult offender work program and a $240 fine.

Calhoun was found guilty of battery on Oct. 18, 2013.

Calhoun attacked a student on March 22 2013 after she cursed at him while leaving a class.

The sentencing started at 9 a.m. and included statements from Prosecutor Michael Brummell, Judge Denise Whitehead, Calhoun’s attorney Roger Nuttall, Calhoun himself, and his wife Elaine Calhoun.

Nuttall gave a quick statement in which he referred to Calhoun as “a good man” and  said that Calhoun had lived an “exemplary life.”

Elaine Calhoun, Calhoun’s wife gave a tearful plea for leniency to the judge and sat down in less than a minute.

Following his wife’s statement Brian Calhoun then approached a podium in the middle of the courtroom and gave a list of the hardships he has endured since the beginning of the trial.

These included being terminated from his job, losing his pension, being denied unemployment by the State Center Community College District, being “publicly humiliated by the media” and reading off the list of his legal fees totaling $53,000.

Prosecutor Michael Brummell followed up Calhoun’s statement by describing Calhoun as a man who “has shown no remorse” and “refuses to take blame” for his actions.

Whitehead sentenced Calhoun and reiterated Brummell’s statements about a man who showed no remorse following the incident.

Whitehead took the prosecution’s suggestion for 160 days of imprisonment but knew that Calhoun would be released due to prison overcrowding and assigned Calhoun to the 90 days in the AOWP.