Yesterday a jury handed down a guilty verdict in the attempted murder trial of actor Shelley Malil, best known for playing Steve Carell’s SmartTech coworker Haziz in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Malil stabbed his girlfriend 23 times in 2008 after discovering her talking with another man on the patio of their shared home; his defense was that, in the “chaos,” he believed that the man was planning on attacking him. He was found guilty of both attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon and now faces 16 years to life in prison.
For those unfamiliar, Malil is the “What are we, Al-Qaeda?” guy in the following scene:
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