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A 19-YEAR-OLD APTOS RESIDENT WAS SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY JAIL AND THREE YEARS PROBATION LATE LAST WEEK. THE SENTENCE STEMS FROM A SEPTEMBER FIGHT (ON BEER CAN BEACH) IN WHICH A MORGAN HILL TEEN WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. SAM SNOWDEN PLEADED GUILTY TO FELONY ASSAULT, FOR HITTING THE VICTIM IN THE HEAD WITH A LOG. THE BLOW CAUSED A DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE, FOR WHICH THE VITIM UNDERWENT EMERGENCY HEAD SURGERY. THE JUDGE WILL ALLOW SNOWDEN (WHO HAD A SCHOLARSHIP TO THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE) TO ATTEND CABRILLO COLLEGE ON FURLOUGHS FROM JAIL.