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Man sentenced for attacking college baseball player at popular Buckhead bar

ATLANTA — The man who punched a former Georgia State baseball pitcher at a popular Buckhead bar and caused brain injury, is now in prison. 

Channel 2's Wendy Corona was in the Fulton County courtroom Tuesday when the judge gave a sentence he said no one would be happy with.

Nat Gosline was sentenced to 10 years with two to serve for aggravated battery and aggravated assault stemming from the bar incident.

The victim's mother, Tammy Swaggerty, told Corona she didn't believe the sentence was enough.

"I never dreamed that the sentence would be that light," she said. "It was senseless, it was violent, it was horrific."

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Gosline's attorney, Jon Majeske, told Corona he thought it was a fair decision by the judge.

In the courtroom, Newkirk referenced video from inside Kramer's in Buckhead in Oct. 2015. It shows then 21-year-old Dillon Swaggerty take a punch from Nat Gosline and another person kick him. That attack left Swaggerty, then a Georgia State junior and baseball pitcher, with brain injuries.

“There's nothing, absolutely nothing, that justifies that kind of response,” said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk.

It was not the first bit of trouble Gosline had faced. He had prior incidents in Henry County and in Michigan shortly before the Buckhead incident.

"On three separate occasions, you’ve lost that control and that’s a big problem," the judge told Gosline in court.