[ApplegateRanch]

One charge that could result, he said, is a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.

Sickening. She causes all this hysteria, and might get a slap on the wrist. Make it a felony and make em do time if they lie about this kind of thing, I say!

She'll cop it with 'it was an experiment in applied psychology, for a paper I'm working on..." and not get anything.

Much as "performance artists" fall back to, when they get caught doing something any of us would be sent to jail for doing.

[Bonaparte]

"...it was an experiment in applied psychology..."

And the judge will invite her to participate in another experiment in applied penology.

Winona Ryder tried the same sort of thing when she was caught shoplifting -- it was all acting research.