As far as we're concerned, Joshua Moran is a saint. Here's a guy, minding his own business, standing outside a CU dorm when out of nowhere a full-length mirror comes crashing down on his head. Now the man responsible for Moran's injuries, which included a nasty bump on the head and glass shards imbeded in his scalp, will serve only a year of probation and no jail time thanks in part to a plea for mercy by Moran himself.

Maybe Moran is just a really nice guy. Or maybe someone should take him back to the hospital and have his head checked.

This was no accident, at least not in the plainest sense. Rolf William Johnson, a 19-year-old student in a dorm room 12 stories up, had dropped the mirror out his window just moments earlier. There's no indication he meant to hit Johnson or anyone else, but on a college campus its reasonable to assume people could be lurking just about anywhere.

Johnson had no idea what happened to him as he lay in a pool of blood on the sidewalk outside the towering dorm. Other students came to his aid and and an ambulance rushed him to the hospital. According to police, he very easily could have died from such a blow.

By all accounts Johnson was sorry for what he did. According to Moran Johnson called him in the hospital to apologize for the incident, then turned himself in to police.

It's also pretty clear that Johnson needed a break in a big way. Earlier in the week of the incident Johnson got word that his girlfriend back east had died from an accidental drug overdose. It's enough to make a 19-year-old do some pretty strange things, but throwing things from the 12th floor of Stearns West isn't an acceptable response.

Moran's got a big heart. Thanks to his actions the felony assault charges Johnson faced were dropped. Now he need only take part in a restorative justice program, which basically means talking to Moran and his family about the incident. That's the least he can do.

We'd like to think that if Moran went out and seriously injured someone and blamed his actions on the fact that he'd recently had a mirror dropped on his head he would get the same sort of sympathy. We doubt it, but if anything like that happens Johnson had better be right there, begging the judge for mercy.

Knowing what a generous, forgivving person his victim turned out to be, Johnson probably wishes the mirror he dropped hadn't hit Moran. He's lucky it hit him and not someone else.