Staff file photo by Dean Shalhoup Justin Malloch listens to testimony in his trial earlier this week with one of his attorneys, Kara Simard. Malloch was convicted Friday of four of the seven charges against him.

NASHUA – Justin Malloch on Friday returned to Valley Street jail to await sentencing, shortly after jurors in his felony assault trial pronounced him guilty on four of the seven charges that accused him of attacking his longtime partner and her mother in January.

The jury, which deliberated for roughly five hours through two days, entered the Hillsborough County Superior Court-South courtroom of Judge Jacalyn Colburn at about 10:30 a.m. Friday. Moments

later, he watched as the jury foreman read each of the seven verdicts.

They returned guilty verdicts on one count each of first-degree assault, a felony; second-degree assault, felony; and simple assault and simple assault-domestic violence, both misdemeanors.

Jurors found Malloch not guilty of one count of simple assault and two counts of criminal threatening, also misdemeanors.

Colburn, after conferring with the attorneys and Superior Court Clerk Marshall Buttrick, scheduled Malloch’s sentencing hearing for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 26.

Colburn ordered Malloch’s bail continued pending the hearing.

Malloch, 36, a tall man who wore dress shirts and slacks to court each of the four trial days, showed little emotion as the verdicts were read. He stood between his lawyers, Kara Simard and Ryan Guptill, at the defense table.

Assistant County Attorney Cassie Devine listened to the verdicts from the prosecution table.

The two felony charges, and one of the simple assault counts, on which Malloch was convicted are tied to the assaults on his longtime partner, with whom he has two children.

The other simple assault charge on which he was found guilty stems from assaulting the woman’s mother, with whom the couple and their children had lived until January.

A conviction on a Class A felony is punishable by a State Prison sentence of up to 15 years, while the term for a Class B felony conviction is up to seven years.

Misdemeanor charges are typically punishable by up to 12 months in jail.

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-1256, dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DeanS.