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Guilty plea in case of pies thrown at columnist <Ann Coulter)
Arizona Daily Star ^ | Nov 6, 2005 | Kim Smith

Posted on 11/05/2005 5:01:28 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: assault; case; columnist; coulter; guiltyplea; leftisttactics; pie; pies; thrown
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1 posted on 11/05/2005 5:01:28 PM PST by SandRat
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To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..

PIE TOSSER PLEADS GUILTY


2 posted on 11/05/2005 5:08:04 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
"PIE TOSSER"

Is that what we're calling them these days?

3 posted on 11/05/2005 5:13:30 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: SandRat

Tofu! Oh, the indignity.


4 posted on 11/05/2005 5:17:18 PM PST by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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To: SandRat
"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.

5 posted on 11/05/2005 5:20:02 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SandRat
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.

6 posted on 11/05/2005 5:20:40 PM PST by Who dat?
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To: SandRat

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 @$$.


7 posted on 11/05/2005 5:23:32 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Others have died for my freedom — now this is my mark." Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, USMC)
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To: Socratic
I'd toss Tofu too! If you fed it to me. At least I'd toss it where it belongs --


8 posted on 11/05/2005 5:24:49 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

LOL. Right you are.


9 posted on 11/05/2005 5:25:39 PM PST by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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To: SandRat

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


10 posted on 11/05/2005 5:37:23 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (America's Achilles Heel is the liberal democrats and the dung heels who mislead them.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
I don't know,..... a bucket of pig slop just might be a little more aromatic and longer lasting.
11 posted on 11/05/2005 5:39:22 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

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


12 posted on 11/05/2005 5:43:31 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (America's Achilles Heel is the liberal democrats and the dung heels who mislead them.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

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


13 posted on 11/05/2005 5:44:44 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

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


14 posted on 11/05/2005 5:51:34 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (America's Achilles Heel is the liberal democrats and the dung heels who mislead them.)
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To: SandRat
He must not have been a good Lefty. First, he got caught, and second, he admitted guilt.

-PJ

15 posted on 11/05/2005 5:52:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

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


16 posted on 11/05/2005 5:53:25 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Socratic

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


17 posted on 11/05/2005 5:54:18 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: SandRat

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.


18 posted on 11/05/2005 5:58:28 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

A shaving cream pie????


19 posted on 11/05/2005 6:02:17 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
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?????

20 posted on 11/05/2005 6:12:04 PM PST by SampleMan
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