A 28-year-old man was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for stabbing another man following a dispute at a Costa Mesa nightclub.

Tremere Robert Armani Mason was convicted in August of a single felony count of assault with a deadly weapon. Jurors acquitted him of assault with a deadly weapon charges involving two other men wounded in a fight with the defendant and rejected sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury.

Mason was given credit for 780 days behind bars.

Mason faced up to seven years in prison, but Deputy District Attorney Lance Cotton recommended six years as the defendant’s attorney requested two to three years. Mason had no prior criminal history, his attorneys said.

In a letter to Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Knox, Mason expressed his rem

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