Former Giants tackle Luke Petitgout will spend the holidays in jail.

On Friday, a New York judge convicted him of two counts of harassment and sentenced him to 30 days in jail for allegedly sucker-punching a man who was on a date with his estranged wife, and then slugging her.

Petitgout was acquitted of attempted assault for the June fracas at 48 Lounge, where his wife, Jennifer, was lunching with a Queens man she met on an adult sex site. The judge said he had to let Petitgout off on that charge because the law requires proof that he intended to cause injury and he could not draw that conclusion.

"On each count, the defendant is sentenced to 15 days in jail," Mandelbaum said via the New York Post. "In light of the history of violence and abuse, those sentences are to run consecutive."

Petitgout, a first-round pick of the Giants in 1999 out of Notre Dame, played with the club until 2006. He finished his career with the Tampa Bay Bucs in 2007.

His wife cited numerous incidents of abuse during her testimony.

Judge Robert Mandelbaum also sentenced Petitgout to a 26-week batterers program and issued an order of protection for his wife.

Petitgout's lawyer asked the judge to let him begin his sentence after the holidays so he could spend Christmas with his three daughters, but the request was denied. Petitgout was then led him out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

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