June 25, 2026
The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Actor’s New Role: Prison Inmate
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RSS Feed Actor Nick Pasqual will spend at least the next 3 decades behind bars for brutally beating and stabbing his ex-girlfriend. A judge sentenced Pasqual to 32 years to life after Hollywood makeup artist Allie Shehorn testified about how Pasqual defied a restraining order, sneaked into her home while she was sleeping, and stabbed her more than 20 times. Hear what Pasqual had to say in court, and even better, what the judge had to say back to the former actor about his alleged “remorse.”
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, June twenty fifth. She survived being stabbed twenty times by her ex boyfriend. She survived and was able to get on the stand and testify against him at his trial, and now her actor X is going to prison for decades. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents Robes. The story, the details sure make it newsworthy, but what he did for a living and what particular hit shows he was attached to made the headlines absolutely.
00:00:40
Speaker 2: So we're talking about actor Nick Pasqual. He is best known for a role he had on How I Met Your Mother, a pretty big, massive juggernaut of a show. Yes, that is among his acting credits. But now he is going to prison, possibly the rest of his life.
00:01:01
Speaker 1: And can I make sure here, I want to put it in context. This is not some big time or had a major recurring role in any of these shows. But he made a number of appearances. I just want to put in context, yes, because people might be thinking, oh, which one was he? I love that show. You're not going to come up with.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: You and he's not a household name for sure. He played a guest star role as an architecture student named Will in How I Met Your Mother. So he had a big, a prominent role in an episode of a huge hit show. And then he has some other acting credits as well, but he was a working character and if you see his face, he actually looks familiar to me. It's like one of those guys who you've seen pop up here and there. But that was his most notable credit acting credit was How I Met Your Mother.
00:01:47
Speaker 1: And his girlfriend was working in Hollywood as well. He was a Hollywood makeup artist. So there you go, folks who are familiar with the industry get together. Not necessarily a surprise kind of a thing, right, so everything sounds like going to play.
00:02:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so yes, his girlfriend, Ali Sheehorn, I guess I should say former girlfriend, a Hollywood makeup artist, and they had a relationship that turned sour, as many do. But he ultimately was charged with and convicted of attempted murder first degree residential burglary with a basically with a fiance, boyfriend, girlfriend, or child's parents. So he got those are serious charges and he ended up getting thirty two years to life for his crimes. So this stabbing took place in twenty twenty four, but when you start to hear about what happened, how it happened. It is unfortunately a common tale. Just because you're an actor, just because you're in Hollywood, you're still suffering, I guess, from the same human flaws that have certainly taken down so many others.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: This is one of that we've seen this story before, we've heard this story before, just that the ending was a little different and she didn't die.
00:03:02
Speaker 2: Thank god.
00:03:03
Speaker 1: This is one of those stories where there is a record of abuse in a relationship and it gets to a point, and it got to that point and she came within I shouldn't say within an inch of her life. There was some testimony or at least the judge was talking about she technically died twice twice during this attack. So this one is a miracle. She's still around. But rot, we gotta we have to pay attention to these stories that keep popping up. Where didn't we just cover one? The death row inmate in Florida.
00:03:36
Speaker 2: Told her he was going to come back and kill her, and.
00:03:38
Speaker 1: Still the police didn't stop him and he killed her. Kind of a thing, right, It's just we see this happen too much, and this is one that did have an ending that didn't end in death, but it's horrific what happened to her.
00:03:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm so glad you point that out, because these are the types of stories that need to be told, that need to people need to be reminded of, because historically speaking, law enforcement simply has not done enough to protect women who are saying, I'm in danger, I'm in threat, I have been threatened, and here's the person who's doing it. Domestic violent situations are some of the most dangerous calls that a police officer can go on for obvious reasons, and it's obviously one of the most dangerous situations a woman can face, especially You've said this plenty of times. When is the most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship when.
00:04:25
Speaker 1: She decides to leave, When she makes a decision that it's over, that it's done, that she's leaving, when she makes a plan. We have seen it time and again in robes. Here we are. This seems to have followed along in that familiar thing.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: Yep. So yes, here you have Ali Shehrn and she took the stand and it was powerful testimony at his trial. She took out a restraining order because she said the relationship turned abusive. She ended the relationship, and she testified about the violent fight that led to the breakup. So there was violence as she was breaking up with him. She goes and gets a restraining order, and he comes back to finish the job. And that is what he was convicted of. So this happened in May of twenty twenty four again after she ended the relationship, after she took out a restraining order, he broke into her home at four thirty in the morning while she was sleeping.
00:05:21
Speaker 1: This attack, it just sounds brutal and is this wasn't a fight, This wasn't an incident that got violent. The point of him being there was violence, the point of there is no way he wasn't trying to kill her.
00:05:40
Speaker 2: Yes, No, you make such a good point. The violence that had erupted and fights before, she had never gotten this bad. He left anyway, she ends up ending it when he went back and sneaked into her home at four thirty in the morning. It was with clear intense. Yeah, he beat her and stabbed her, as you pointed out, more than twenty times. He left her for dead and she was hospitalized. She underwent multiple surgeries for critical injuries. They had to repair severed tendons in her right arm, they had to close multiple wounds in her neck. And then so he stabs her more than twenty times. I'm assuming he thinks she's dead, he's killed her. He immediately fled California and was arrested at the border of Mexico there in Texas, right on the border there, he was trying to flee. That again, what a stereotypical escape, heading to Mexico after you think you've just murdered your ex girlfriend.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: That crazy, howse story. I guess maybe we cover I don't know. We cover so many people watch so many through crime stories and sometimes like this isn't original. An abusive relationship leads to an attempted murder and he's heading to Mexico. I mean, it's amazing what the patterns people still follow. We were covering a story earlier about a guy takes his wife on a hike and pushes her off the side and turns out he was having refair and took out an insurance policy the year before, Like these things, like are you kidding me?
00:07:16
Speaker 2: Can you imagine we're covering this as journalists and we've been covering these types of stories for a long long time. But I'm just imagining you're in law enforcement. It would be so hard not to get jaded because you just see this same scenario playing out over and over and over again. And look, thankfully, Ali Shehorn survived and thankfully her ex boyfriend, Nick pask Wal was caught, But there are so many other stories that don't end this way. And it was really powerful because not only did she was it her testimony that got him convicted. The jury I think took what an hour and a half to come back with a unanimous guilty verdict wasn't long at all. But her victim in pack statement at the sentencing that just took place a short while ago, I thought was powerful. She said, when I was lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I remembered wondering if this was how my life was going to end. I was terrified, I was in pain. You, who I had once trusted, decided my life was something that you could take away. That is chilling.
00:08:24
Speaker 1: Again, She's sitting in a room feet away from this guy who put her through that. That's I think robes we see it happened plenty, and they set up there, some a little more shtoric than others, some a little more emotional, some are angry. I don't know how they do it. Like I applaud anyone who's able to do that, I just that moment to sit there and do that. I just hats off to her. This is this is not This is different man, to have someone that intimately try to kill you and you got to walk in there, someone.
00:08:59
Speaker 2: Who used slept in bed next to night after night after night, who you loved.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: I don't know how she did it. So it was fascinating to see her there in court and you could see with scars on her She's got scars right that are unmistakable from this attack. And so I just hats off to her for her.
00:09:17
Speaker 2: I know, I just got chills thinking about that. Yes, she's got physical scars. Can you imagine the emotional scars she has? Can you imagine the trust issues she has? I don't even know how you could ever enter into another relationship and not sleep with one eye open and not be afraid to trust that person, and maybe even to trust your own judgment about who that person is. You think you know someone you think they're a certain person and then this happens.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: She might be going back and thinking through it, and I'm sure she has, but I have never necessarily experienced something like that robes or sort ofly not to this level, but to where you think you know somebody and then they do something so like what in God's name?
00:10:01
Speaker 2: Like?
00:10:01
Speaker 1: How could I have been so wrong?
00:10:03
Speaker 2: Yep?
00:10:03
Speaker 1: She slept in the bed with this guy. She was intimate with this guy, who knows what plans they had for the future, and if she was willing to do all that, how did I miss? This is a guy who might murder me.
00:10:13
Speaker 2: Oof it is. It is deeply disturbing, and we should mention. Pascual sentenced thirty two years to life, but he's already filed an appeal, and he actually released this statement after his sentencing. He said, I remain deeply saddened by everything surrounding this case, and I continue to wish healing and peace for everyone affected. I am grateful to those who have supported me during this process, and I intend to remain focused on sobriety, recovery, accountability, and a respectful appellate process moving forward.
00:10:49
Speaker 1: That's weird, right, really weird statement.
00:10:51
Speaker 2: That's what I thought too. It seems so creepy. Did you It felt chilling and creepy, almost like there was a lack of accountability and almost acting as if he was a broker of peace. What the actual hell was that statement?
00:11:06
Speaker 1: He acts like he stole your car, He's not. That statement doesn't suggest he understands the gravity, and I'm sure he does. I don't know why this was, lawyer, I don't know what this is. You don't talk like that. There is no you're a murderer, she just variety. What have you been focusing on your sobriety? He's making a statement like he's a he's gonna continue acting career later. Yeah what what?
00:11:32
Speaker 2: That's bizarre And that to me is delusional. So that really jumped out at me, and I can't imagine how that must have affected her. I remain deeply saddened by everything surrounding this case.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, that there's no accountability, it's just him, there's no surrounding this case. Saddened by things surrounding that's not an acknowledgment of what happened. I remained saddened by what I did.
00:11:55
Speaker 2: To her, and I can Yeah, I continue to wish healing in peace for everyone affected. What, Yeah, you're the perpetrator.
00:12:06
Speaker 1: It's bizarre, I guess his lawyers. I don't know what what that helps. He didn't need to say anything.
00:12:12
Speaker 2: He did not need to say anything. And to that point, when we come back, we're gonna tell you what he actually said in court before the sentencing, trying to appeal to the judge to give him a lesser sentence, and then we'll tell you what the judge had to say in response. You'll want to hear it. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. This was a hell of a court case and a heck of a sentencing. When you had a an actor, a working actor. He was best known for a role he had and How I Met Your Mother. His name is Nick Pesqual. He was convicted of brutally stabbing his ex girlfriend nearly to death and then yeah, tried to somehow act as if that was just a blip in the road, working on a sobriety, trying to make amends. But is he really when you hear his statements, and then you hear from his ex girlfriend who testified at court during the trial and then had a victim impact statement during his sentencing. The two statements don't jibe, and it's actually offensive to hear him speak. I can't imagine what it was like for her to hear him address the court in his sentencing, because it's just hard to imagine what he could say.
00:13:37
Speaker 1: Well, it's we talk about this quite a bit, actually, and it's rare to have someone who is convicted of such a heinous crime to stand up and say anything. They usually just pass. So I was surprised even and it not sure what it suggests that he actually wanted to take advantage of the moment and make statement.
00:14:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that was the actor in him wanting the spotlight. Who knows this is just a much different spotlight than he was seeking. But maybe now that he's got it, he's going to go ahead and put in his two cents. But before the judge actually sentenced him to thirty two years to life, he did make this statement, and this was the first statement where it seemed as though he was attempting to apologize. He said Ali did not deserve to almost have her life taken from her. No amount of words can form an adequate apology for what she has had to endure. But again even that he didn't say for what I did, I it was all passive. Ali did not deserve to almost have her life taken from her by you.
00:14:44
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's a part of the appeal. You're not fully taking responsibility in some way. Maybe that is, Maybe that's a legal thing, but I mean, if you're asking for mercy from the court, that's not going to help. Surely that again odd language. I'm sure for what happened to you, I would say that to her, right, right.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: A bystander would say that. And then he said, no amount of words can form an adequate apology for what she had to adore. Okay, at your hands, And why don't you go ahead and give it a try. Why don't you go ahead and try. Don't just say words can't aren't adequate to form an apology. Why don't you just go ahead and say, I'm sorry for trying to kill you.
00:15:26
Speaker 1: But again, maybe it is that's a legal thing having to do with the appeal, not actually admitting that he's the one that did it. Was there a defense even that they put on in this case? And I assume you're just trying to lessen the damage of how long he's gonna stay in Princeton.
00:15:40
Speaker 2: But it's bizarre. So you're gonna love to hear what. The judge said in response, Oh, I love this. It's great, right, this is so good. So Pasquala is trying to, in a weird, backhanded, past aggressive way kind of say he's sorry. The judge responds by referencing a recorded phone call that pasqual made to a friend while he was in jail following his arrest, and.
00:16:07
Speaker 1: So the judge was ready. The judge was like.
00:16:11
Speaker 2: I've got receipts. Let me pull this back. Yeah, I'm going to question this sudden remorse you're expressing in the court today because, and I will quote the judge, you stated that you feel remorse for what occurred. But my response to you is, if that's true, then why on April twenty eighth, during that phone call with your friend, did you mock Ali Sheehorn for what she went through? The evidence showed that Ali's injuries were so catastrophic that she was clinically dead twice boom. The judge wasn't having it.
00:16:47
Speaker 1: Hey, you can't. There's no pushback though, and I can't even believe that that recently was loose that's that says a lot, baby.
00:16:55
Speaker 2: Doesn't it? I'm sorry? Doesn't everyone know what this point that all phone calls made from prison are recorded and can and will be used against you in a court of law.
00:17:10
Speaker 1: Again, Rbes, It's like they follow familiar patterns, all the criminals. It's like, wow, guys, watch please watch anything, watch any true crime show. Pick one and just one season and all of these things will play out.
00:17:24
Speaker 2: Right. So he's mocking his ex girlfriend who he brutally stabbed, who died twice clinically, and then stands up in front of the court and in a very passive aggressive way, tries to say I'm sorry, thinking the judge is going to go easy on him. So yes, Nick Pesquell sentenced to thirty two years to life. He gave him the maximum sentence that was possible. And look, given the circumstances, given just even the transcripts from the trial and from the sentencing hearing, it's hard to imagine that any parole board anytime soon would be willing to let this dude out any time. Like it's just the lack of remorse, the premeditation that went into it, and the brutality and viciousness of the crime. She basically is lucky and maybe he got lucky in the sense that she didn't die, because by all accounts what he did to her, she should have died.
00:18:21
Speaker 1: And again, like the judge said, she technically did yeah during that attack. This is incredible that she survived. But again another one of these stories to pay attention to. Again a familiar pattern that needs to stop at some point, just robed, It goes from one incident to the next incident. She asked for help, ask for restraining order, right, all these things, it happens, and then sure enough he comes back to finish the job. And this is just one. Luckily we can report he did not he was not able to roams. But this is it's tough to keep hearing these.
00:18:53
Speaker 2: Stories, it certainly is. But thank god that Ali she Horn lived to tell her story in court and lives to see another day. We just hope that she's able to mentally, emotionally heal just as well as she has physically, so our hearts go out to her. But it looks like justice was served in this case. And with that, everyone, thank you so much for listening to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. We always appreciate you. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ. Holmes
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, June twenty fifth. She survived being stabbed twenty times by her ex boyfriend. She survived and was able to get on the stand and testify against him at his trial, and now her actor X is going to prison for decades. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents Robes. The story, the details sure make it newsworthy, but what he did for a living and what particular hit shows he was attached to made the headlines absolutely.
00:00:40
Speaker 2: So we're talking about actor Nick Pasqual. He is best known for a role he had on How I Met Your Mother, a pretty big, massive juggernaut of a show. Yes, that is among his acting credits. But now he is going to prison, possibly the rest of his life.
00:01:01
Speaker 1: And can I make sure here, I want to put it in context. This is not some big time or had a major recurring role in any of these shows. But he made a number of appearances. I just want to put in context, yes, because people might be thinking, oh, which one was he? I love that show. You're not going to come up with.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: You and he's not a household name for sure. He played a guest star role as an architecture student named Will in How I Met Your Mother. So he had a big, a prominent role in an episode of a huge hit show. And then he has some other acting credits as well, but he was a working character and if you see his face, he actually looks familiar to me. It's like one of those guys who you've seen pop up here and there. But that was his most notable credit acting credit was How I Met Your Mother.
00:01:47
Speaker 1: And his girlfriend was working in Hollywood as well. He was a Hollywood makeup artist. So there you go, folks who are familiar with the industry get together. Not necessarily a surprise kind of a thing, right, so everything sounds like going to play.
00:02:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so yes, his girlfriend, Ali Sheehorn, I guess I should say former girlfriend, a Hollywood makeup artist, and they had a relationship that turned sour, as many do. But he ultimately was charged with and convicted of attempted murder first degree residential burglary with a basically with a fiance, boyfriend, girlfriend, or child's parents. So he got those are serious charges and he ended up getting thirty two years to life for his crimes. So this stabbing took place in twenty twenty four, but when you start to hear about what happened, how it happened. It is unfortunately a common tale. Just because you're an actor, just because you're in Hollywood, you're still suffering, I guess, from the same human flaws that have certainly taken down so many others.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: This is one of that we've seen this story before, we've heard this story before, just that the ending was a little different and she didn't die.
00:03:02
Speaker 2: Thank god.
00:03:03
Speaker 1: This is one of those stories where there is a record of abuse in a relationship and it gets to a point, and it got to that point and she came within I shouldn't say within an inch of her life. There was some testimony or at least the judge was talking about she technically died twice twice during this attack. So this one is a miracle. She's still around. But rot, we gotta we have to pay attention to these stories that keep popping up. Where didn't we just cover one? The death row inmate in Florida.
00:03:36
Speaker 2: Told her he was going to come back and kill her, and.
00:03:38
Speaker 1: Still the police didn't stop him and he killed her. Kind of a thing, right, It's just we see this happen too much, and this is one that did have an ending that didn't end in death, but it's horrific what happened to her.
00:03:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm so glad you point that out, because these are the types of stories that need to be told, that need to people need to be reminded of, because historically speaking, law enforcement simply has not done enough to protect women who are saying, I'm in danger, I'm in threat, I have been threatened, and here's the person who's doing it. Domestic violent situations are some of the most dangerous calls that a police officer can go on for obvious reasons, and it's obviously one of the most dangerous situations a woman can face, especially You've said this plenty of times. When is the most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship when.
00:04:25
Speaker 1: She decides to leave, When she makes a decision that it's over, that it's done, that she's leaving, when she makes a plan. We have seen it time and again in robes. Here we are. This seems to have followed along in that familiar thing.
00:04:39
Speaker 2: Yep. So yes, here you have Ali Shehrn and she took the stand and it was powerful testimony at his trial. She took out a restraining order because she said the relationship turned abusive. She ended the relationship, and she testified about the violent fight that led to the breakup. So there was violence as she was breaking up with him. She goes and gets a restraining order, and he comes back to finish the job. And that is what he was convicted of. So this happened in May of twenty twenty four again after she ended the relationship, after she took out a restraining order, he broke into her home at four thirty in the morning while she was sleeping.
00:05:21
Speaker 1: This attack, it just sounds brutal and is this wasn't a fight, This wasn't an incident that got violent. The point of him being there was violence, the point of there is no way he wasn't trying to kill her.
00:05:40
Speaker 2: Yes, No, you make such a good point. The violence that had erupted and fights before, she had never gotten this bad. He left anyway, she ends up ending it when he went back and sneaked into her home at four thirty in the morning. It was with clear intense. Yeah, he beat her and stabbed her, as you pointed out, more than twenty times. He left her for dead and she was hospitalized. She underwent multiple surgeries for critical injuries. They had to repair severed tendons in her right arm, they had to close multiple wounds in her neck. And then so he stabs her more than twenty times. I'm assuming he thinks she's dead, he's killed her. He immediately fled California and was arrested at the border of Mexico there in Texas, right on the border there, he was trying to flee. That again, what a stereotypical escape, heading to Mexico after you think you've just murdered your ex girlfriend.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: That crazy, howse story. I guess maybe we cover I don't know. We cover so many people watch so many through crime stories and sometimes like this isn't original. An abusive relationship leads to an attempted murder and he's heading to Mexico. I mean, it's amazing what the patterns people still follow. We were covering a story earlier about a guy takes his wife on a hike and pushes her off the side and turns out he was having refair and took out an insurance policy the year before, Like these things, like are you kidding me?
00:07:16
Speaker 2: Can you imagine we're covering this as journalists and we've been covering these types of stories for a long long time. But I'm just imagining you're in law enforcement. It would be so hard not to get jaded because you just see this same scenario playing out over and over and over again. And look, thankfully, Ali Shehorn survived and thankfully her ex boyfriend, Nick pask Wal was caught, But there are so many other stories that don't end this way. And it was really powerful because not only did she was it her testimony that got him convicted. The jury I think took what an hour and a half to come back with a unanimous guilty verdict wasn't long at all. But her victim in pack statement at the sentencing that just took place a short while ago, I thought was powerful. She said, when I was lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I remembered wondering if this was how my life was going to end. I was terrified, I was in pain. You, who I had once trusted, decided my life was something that you could take away. That is chilling.
00:08:24
Speaker 1: Again, She's sitting in a room feet away from this guy who put her through that. That's I think robes we see it happened plenty, and they set up there, some a little more shtoric than others, some a little more emotional, some are angry. I don't know how they do it. Like I applaud anyone who's able to do that, I just that moment to sit there and do that. I just hats off to her. This is this is not This is different man, to have someone that intimately try to kill you and you got to walk in there, someone.
00:08:59
Speaker 2: Who used slept in bed next to night after night after night, who you loved.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: I don't know how she did it. So it was fascinating to see her there in court and you could see with scars on her She's got scars right that are unmistakable from this attack. And so I just hats off to her for her.
00:09:17
Speaker 2: I know, I just got chills thinking about that. Yes, she's got physical scars. Can you imagine the emotional scars she has? Can you imagine the trust issues she has? I don't even know how you could ever enter into another relationship and not sleep with one eye open and not be afraid to trust that person, and maybe even to trust your own judgment about who that person is. You think you know someone you think they're a certain person and then this happens.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: She might be going back and thinking through it, and I'm sure she has, but I have never necessarily experienced something like that robes or sort ofly not to this level, but to where you think you know somebody and then they do something so like what in God's name?
00:10:01
Speaker 2: Like?
00:10:01
Speaker 1: How could I have been so wrong?
00:10:03
Speaker 2: Yep?
00:10:03
Speaker 1: She slept in the bed with this guy. She was intimate with this guy, who knows what plans they had for the future, and if she was willing to do all that, how did I miss? This is a guy who might murder me.
00:10:13
Speaker 2: Oof it is. It is deeply disturbing, and we should mention. Pascual sentenced thirty two years to life, but he's already filed an appeal, and he actually released this statement after his sentencing. He said, I remain deeply saddened by everything surrounding this case, and I continue to wish healing and peace for everyone affected. I am grateful to those who have supported me during this process, and I intend to remain focused on sobriety, recovery, accountability, and a respectful appellate process moving forward.
00:10:49
Speaker 1: That's weird, right, really weird statement.
00:10:51
Speaker 2: That's what I thought too. It seems so creepy. Did you It felt chilling and creepy, almost like there was a lack of accountability and almost acting as if he was a broker of peace. What the actual hell was that statement?
00:11:06
Speaker 1: He acts like he stole your car, He's not. That statement doesn't suggest he understands the gravity, and I'm sure he does. I don't know why this was, lawyer, I don't know what this is. You don't talk like that. There is no you're a murderer, she just variety. What have you been focusing on your sobriety? He's making a statement like he's a he's gonna continue acting career later. Yeah what what?
00:11:32
Speaker 2: That's bizarre And that to me is delusional. So that really jumped out at me, and I can't imagine how that must have affected her. I remain deeply saddened by everything surrounding this case.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, that there's no accountability, it's just him, there's no surrounding this case. Saddened by things surrounding that's not an acknowledgment of what happened. I remained saddened by what I did.
00:11:55
Speaker 2: To her, and I can Yeah, I continue to wish healing in peace for everyone affected. What, Yeah, you're the perpetrator.
00:12:06
Speaker 1: It's bizarre, I guess his lawyers. I don't know what what that helps. He didn't need to say anything.
00:12:12
Speaker 2: He did not need to say anything. And to that point, when we come back, we're gonna tell you what he actually said in court before the sentencing, trying to appeal to the judge to give him a lesser sentence, and then we'll tell you what the judge had to say in response. You'll want to hear it. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. This was a hell of a court case and a heck of a sentencing. When you had a an actor, a working actor. He was best known for a role he had and How I Met Your Mother. His name is Nick Pesqual. He was convicted of brutally stabbing his ex girlfriend nearly to death and then yeah, tried to somehow act as if that was just a blip in the road, working on a sobriety, trying to make amends. But is he really when you hear his statements, and then you hear from his ex girlfriend who testified at court during the trial and then had a victim impact statement during his sentencing. The two statements don't jibe, and it's actually offensive to hear him speak. I can't imagine what it was like for her to hear him address the court in his sentencing, because it's just hard to imagine what he could say.
00:13:37
Speaker 1: Well, it's we talk about this quite a bit, actually, and it's rare to have someone who is convicted of such a heinous crime to stand up and say anything. They usually just pass. So I was surprised even and it not sure what it suggests that he actually wanted to take advantage of the moment and make statement.
00:14:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that was the actor in him wanting the spotlight. Who knows this is just a much different spotlight than he was seeking. But maybe now that he's got it, he's going to go ahead and put in his two cents. But before the judge actually sentenced him to thirty two years to life, he did make this statement, and this was the first statement where it seemed as though he was attempting to apologize. He said Ali did not deserve to almost have her life taken from her. No amount of words can form an adequate apology for what she has had to endure. But again even that he didn't say for what I did, I it was all passive. Ali did not deserve to almost have her life taken from her by you.
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Speaker 1: Well maybe that's a part of the appeal. You're not fully taking responsibility in some way. Maybe that is, Maybe that's a legal thing, but I mean, if you're asking for mercy from the court, that's not going to help. Surely that again odd language. I'm sure for what happened to you, I would say that to her, right, right.
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Speaker 2: A bystander would say that. And then he said, no amount of words can form an adequate apology for what she had to adore. Okay, at your hands, And why don't you go ahead and give it a try. Why don't you go ahead and try. Don't just say words can't aren't adequate to form an apology. Why don't you just go ahead and say, I'm sorry for trying to kill you.
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Speaker 1: But again, maybe it is that's a legal thing having to do with the appeal, not actually admitting that he's the one that did it. Was there a defense even that they put on in this case? And I assume you're just trying to lessen the damage of how long he's gonna stay in Princeton.
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Speaker 2: But it's bizarre. So you're gonna love to hear what. The judge said in response, Oh, I love this. It's great, right, this is so good. So Pasquala is trying to, in a weird, backhanded, past aggressive way kind of say he's sorry. The judge responds by referencing a recorded phone call that pasqual made to a friend while he was in jail following his arrest, and.
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Speaker 1: So the judge was ready. The judge was like.
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Speaker 2: I've got receipts. Let me pull this back. Yeah, I'm going to question this sudden remorse you're expressing in the court today because, and I will quote the judge, you stated that you feel remorse for what occurred. But my response to you is, if that's true, then why on April twenty eighth, during that phone call with your friend, did you mock Ali Sheehorn for what she went through? The evidence showed that Ali's injuries were so catastrophic that she was clinically dead twice boom. The judge wasn't having it.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you can't. There's no pushback though, and I can't even believe that that recently was loose that's that says a lot, baby.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't it? I'm sorry? Doesn't everyone know what this point that all phone calls made from prison are recorded and can and will be used against you in a court of law.
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Speaker 1: Again, Rbes, It's like they follow familiar patterns, all the criminals. It's like, wow, guys, watch please watch anything, watch any true crime show. Pick one and just one season and all of these things will play out.
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Speaker 2: Right. So he's mocking his ex girlfriend who he brutally stabbed, who died twice clinically, and then stands up in front of the court and in a very passive aggressive way, tries to say I'm sorry, thinking the judge is going to go easy on him. So yes, Nick Pesquell sentenced to thirty two years to life. He gave him the maximum sentence that was possible. And look, given the circumstances, given just even the transcripts from the trial and from the sentencing hearing, it's hard to imagine that any parole board anytime soon would be willing to let this dude out any time. Like it's just the lack of remorse, the premeditation that went into it, and the brutality and viciousness of the crime. She basically is lucky and maybe he got lucky in the sense that she didn't die, because by all accounts what he did to her, she should have died.
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Speaker 1: And again, like the judge said, she technically did yeah during that attack. This is incredible that she survived. But again another one of these stories to pay attention to. Again a familiar pattern that needs to stop at some point, just robed, It goes from one incident to the next incident. She asked for help, ask for restraining order, right, all these things, it happens, and then sure enough he comes back to finish the job. And this is just one. Luckily we can report he did not he was not able to roams. But this is it's tough to keep hearing these.
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Speaker 2: Stories, it certainly is. But thank god that Ali she Horn lived to tell her story in court and lives to see another day. We just hope that she's able to mentally, emotionally heal just as well as she has physically, so our hearts go out to her. But it looks like justice was served in this case. And with that, everyone, thank you so much for listening to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. We always appreciate you. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ. Holmes