LAS VEGAS — A University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate was handcuffed and taken to a Nevada prison boot camp Wednesday for beheading an exotic bird during a drunken chase at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Justin Alexander Teixeira, 25, said nothing as he was sentenced as expected to a little more than six months in the camp.

He could serve another three to five years of probation before he can ask to have his felony conviction reduced to a misdemeanor, prosecutor Frank Coumou said.

Coumou noted that Teixeira should learn next month whether he passed the California State Bar exam he took in July. Whether Teixeira is admitted to practice law in California could on depend on whether a felony remains on his record. A statement on the bar website notes that people convicted of violent felonies or felonies involving moral turpitude “are presumed not to be of good moral character.” But it allows room for a pardon or “a showing of overwhelming reform and rehabilitation.”