Guilty plea in case of pies thrown at columnist <Ann Coulter)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | Nov 6, 2005 | Kim Smith

[SandRat]

One of two men accused of throwing cream pies at nationally syndicated columnist Ann Coulter last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Friday.

Phillip Edgar Smith agreed to pay $915 in restitution for damage caused to a backdrop screen that was hit by one of the pies, said deputy Pima County Attorney Noah Van Amburg.

Judge Paul Simon gave Smith a $250 fine, but told him that if he pays the restitution by Dec. 5 he will suspend the fine, Van Amburg said.

According to police, Smith and William Zachary Wolff, both 25, threw the tofu cream pies at Coulter as she spoke before a crowd of 2,500 people at the University of Arizona's Centennial Hall on Oct. 22, 2004. They missed Coulter, but splattered a black muslin backdrop.

In exchange for Smith's guilty plea, Van Amburg said disorderly conduct and criminal damage charges against him were dismissed.

Smith said Friday afternoon he decided to plead guilty just to get the case over with.

"I'm sure the court didn't want to go through the hassle, and neither did I, for what amounted to just a prank," Smith said.

The original charges against the pair were dismissed on March 18 after neither the arresting officer nor Coulter appeared to testify against them. Both Coulter and a UA police spokesman said the Pima County Attorney's Office failed to properly notify them of the trial.

The case was refiled in April.

Attempts to reach Coulter on Friday through her publisher, Universal Press Syndicate, by phone and e-mail, were unsuccessful. A spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate said an auto response from Coulter's e-mail says she is unable to receive messages until Nov. 15.

A change-of-plea hearing is scheduled in Wolff's case for Nov. 30.

[SandRat]

[SandRat]

PIE TOSSER PLEADS GUILTY

[billorites]

"PIE TOSSER"

Is that what we're calling them these days?

[Socratic]

Tofu! Oh, the indignity.

[Brilliant]

"I'm sure the court didn't want to go through the hassle, and neither did I, for what amounted to just a prank," Smith said.

Seems more like a hate crime to me. Thirty years is in order.

[Who dat?]

That's one reason I like zabasearch. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but if you have first, last, middle initial, state, and age - you can hunt almost anyone up.

Then you can call, write, or visit and let them know what you think.

America is a lot more polite when you can ring a doorbell and voice your concerns - or pull a "prank" of your own, IMO.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So if Smith was hit in the face with a tofu cream pie by Ann Coulter, he'd just shrug it off as a "prank?" If that punk smeared me with tofu I'd kick his goatsmelling, hippie @$$.

[SandRat]

I'd toss Tofu too! If you fed it to me. At least I'd toss it where it belongs --

[Socratic]

LOL. Right you are.

[F.J. Mitchell]

A proper punishment would have been bombarding the scumbag with fresh and juicy cow pies.

[SandRat]

I don't know,..... a bucket of pig slop just might be a little more aromatic and longer lasting.

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! You do mean pig slop that has first been proccessed through the digestive track of the pig, don't you?

[SandRat]

Oh yes, say from about 100 pigs and been fermenting in the hot summer sun of Kentucky.

[F.J. Mitchell]

And then reheated just prior to executing the punishment, of course.

[Political Junkie Too]

He must not have been a good Lefty. First, he got caught, and second, he admitted guilt.

-PJ

[SandRat]

There's nuthin like a steamin pig crap pie that truely says; "I desPIEs you!"

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. He should have went to jail for the Tufu, alone:')

[firebrand]

Can you actually get a cream pie anywhere? A banana cream pie, yes. A chocolate cream pie. A coconut cream pie. But just a plain old cream pie? I don't think I've ever seen one.

[SandRat]

A shaving cream pie????

[SampleMan]

Smith said Friday afternoon he decided to plead guilty just to get the case over with.

If this is true, the judge can't accept a plea deal. A person can't say, "I'm pleading guilty, but I'm not really guilty." But why take a plea on a crime that was committed in front of 2500 witnesses?????

[PositiveCogins]

What? No picture of Ann with pie on her face. Now that would be funny. Maybe someone can Photoshop one.

[dbehsman]

"He must not have been a good Lefty. First, he got caught, and second, he admitted guilt."

Good one! Thanks for the laugh!

[dbehsman]

From the article:
""I'm sure the court didn't want to go through the hassle, and neither did I, for what amounted to just a prank," Smith said."

Just a prank, eh? I wonder what his reaction would be to "just a prank" being pulled on his grandparents or his girlfriend.

[WorkingClassFilth]

These days, any freak that vaults onto the stage during a public speech or program and starts throwing things should be thought of as an assailant and dealt with accordingly. If Ann has body guards that pack heat, then I'd rule a shooting as justified.

Seriously, anyone remember Anwar Sadat being killed by a shooter that leaped on stage? How about the Japanese Prime Minister that was hacked to death by some sword wielding stage hopper. Today, the possibility that some leftist scumbag would lace a shaving cream pie with battery acid is no remote possibility and any assault should be considered deadly.

Besides, these two idiots were ugly enough to remind me of those old wild west pictures of the dead bandits stretched out in some funeral parlor window. A good end for bad trash.

[Gigantor]

Can you actually get a cream pie anywhere? A banana cream pie, yes. A chocolate cream pie. A coconut cream pie. But just a plain old cream pie? I don't think I've ever seen one.

You have given me a huge chuckle this morning, but you probably don't know why.

If you do know why, then all the more delicious. I can say no more.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[blackie]

Hang 'em High ~ Bump!

[firebrand]

It sounds dirty so don't tell me.