Seriously, the fact that he was stone cold sober means he was acting
in character because no way was there the provocation to do what he did otherwise.
I have done some dumb stuff drunk in my youth. Although I was never violent other than to a wall in my apartment once, I have acted like a tool.
He seemed to want to go to lengths to say he was sober as though being drunk and hitting a woman was some how worse.
Don't get me wrong, alcohol is not an excuse and in no way, shape or form would I be condoning his actions if he had have been hammered.
BUT, I'd rather be dealing with a guy who couldn't hold his liquor than one who was violent to woman in his normal state.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.