Maslin, left, with his son, Jack, and wife, Abby, in October 2012. (Via Facebook)

Tommy Branch, who was convicted in May of carrying out a savage beating of Capitol Hill resident Thomas C. Maslin last August that left Maslin with with brain damage and other life-altering injuries, will serve 24-and-a-half years in prison, a judge ordered today.

Judge Robert I. Richter announced the sentence in D.C. Superior Court, nearly a year after Branch and two accomplices attacked Maslin late-night last Aug. 18. Branch, 22, was sentenced for convictions of aggravated assault and robbery against Maslin, and in another incident carried out soon after in the early hours of Aug. 19.

Maslin, 29, was walking home from the Tune Inn, a Pennsylvania Avenue SE bar he stopped in with a group of friends following a Washington Nationals game. On his way home, Maslin was jumped by three individuals who robbed him of his iPhone, keys, and wallet and brutally attacked him with a baseball bat.

Branch, 22, was sentenced for convictions of aggravated assault and robbery against Maslin, and in another incident carried out soon after in the early hours of Aug. 19.Maslin was found about 8:30 a.m. the next morning, slumped over on a porch at a house near Eastern Market. Maslin spent two months in a coma and since the attack has endured an extensive rehabilitation process including several brain surgeries. He lost sight in his left eye, and has limited use of his left arm and left leg.

“Nothing can undo the violence that Mr. Branch chose to unleash on that night last year,” Richter said while reading the sentence.

One of Branch’s accomplices, 19-year-old Michael Moore, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified against Branch during his trial in April. A third suspect in Maslin’s beating, Sunny Kuti, who allegedly struck Maslin with the butt of a BB rifle, is due to stand trial next week.

And even though Branch will spend the next several decades of his life behind bars and, eventually, under supervised release, Maslin faces the rest of his life suffering from the effects of that bloody August night. “28 years for Tommy Branch,” his wife, Abby, tweeted shortly after the reading of the sentence. (The sentence was originally reported by some as that long; Branch was convicted on 10 charges, the sentences for some will be served concurrently.) “A lifetime for us.”