WINONA RYDER/Horowitz - urrr .. "EMILY THOMPSON" SENTENCING

Fox News | 12/6/02

[NormsRevenge]

Winona .. Girl INCARCERATED ... or Not?

[ewing]

Thats one of my favorite pictures of her..

[archy]

I never noticed before, but she resembles a very young Marilyn Monroe. At least in this picture. She could maybe play her on screen, if she bulked-up some.

Happy Birthday...to you....Happy Birthday...to YOU.

Happy Birthday.... Mister President!

Happy Birthday! to You!

[alisasny]

WHY, her boobs are hanging so low she looks like an old lady.

[alisasny]

Hear what you are saying..but shoplifting is not that type of crime. It is often totally expunged or reduced if even. Not many stores even prosecute as you have to keep the goods in storage...( which means you cant sell them ) and the shoplifter pretty much wastes the time of an already pathetic retail work force. Just think of the person who caught the shoplifter in court for HOW many hours....

[archy]

Whoa dang! Now if we can only trump up some charges to get her arrested!

Something involving a public display of affection and indecent exposure, perhaps?

I'll get right on it!

-archy-/-

[alisasny]

You literally would have to hire a new person to make up for the person in court and pay them both. Shoplifting is not a viable means of anything to any retail store.

Winona was completely singled out due to her status as a " star."

[FoxGirl]

I see your point. ha. but i usually wear a tshirt with them *;-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

In a small town of 7,000 people, the Wal-Mart shoplifter in my post was prosecuted. In a city, I could understand just letting the person go with a threat that they could've called the cops and had them prosecuted for hundreds of dollars. There's probably too many shoplifters to really deal with and the store doesn't feel like paying employees to sit in court for most of a day for each shoplifting case, especially when the person was lifting some low-dollar item like a candy bar.

I'll bet that the only reason they went after Winona is because she stole $6000 worth of stuff. If she was stealing candy bars, she would have walked with a stern lecture.

[alisasny]

The best irony about shoplifting it that the person who catches the shoplifter is usually the biggest shoplifter himself.

Employee theft in retail is HUGE!!!!

[Tiger28]

about an hour ago Marc Klass was making an angry statement to the press-- he actually said "winona may be a two-time felon- but she is a two-time felon with a big heart"-- i about puked

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I hadn't even considered employee theft. I've heard a few stories about guys getting busted stealing from the retail store that they work at and it turns out later that the guy's house was jam packed full of stolen stuff from work.

[alisasny]

The problem with employee theft is that today retail stores are open way too long....In malls over 12 hours a day 7 days a week. NO honest person can monitor that at that schedule. The honest store manager gets penalized because they can not keep the retail hours. I had a good friend, who was not a friend till I met her at a retail store as coworker....when I left for the day she robbed the store of hundreds a night. I did not know till years later when I was no longer working for company....

We are no longer friends but it always amazed me that I had to be responsible for the store shrinkage when she was the theif.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Frankly I don't take much truck with Marc Klass. I appreciate that he lost his daughter and sympathize with him on that score. However, I seems he has taken advantage of his daughter's death to benefit himself financially.

Since his daughter's tragic end he injects himself into any other similar tragety that comes along. He frequently is introduced as an expert in such matters and makes frequent appearances on TV as such. Klass actively seeks out the news folks covering child abduction cases. I cringe at most of the theory and outright BS that he offers at interviews.

Furthermore, he travels extensively for and is employed by his own 501c3 and promotes his own appearances. Sort of a "rags to riches" evolution based upon taking advantage of a real tragedy and ongoing ones as well.

Just my own opinion.......

[daylate-dollarshort]

Jeeese....I really should proof read a little more carefully!

"I seems"= It seems
"tragety"= tragedy

Mea culpa, mea culpa........

[ewing]

Same thing happened to us at out business, we had a suspicious cash missing problem for years and had to start counting drawers individually for each cashier.

A supposedly 'honest' manager got another job about 90 miles away and the theiving stopped immediately.

[ewing]

I like Dina Meyer too, I must have been concentrating on Denise Richards too hard during 'Starship Troopers!'

[princess leah]

The most disturbing image I saw was WAHHHHnona's face as she looked SHOCKED and amazed like "how could this possibly happen to ME"...wake up b$^ch and take your responsibility like a grown up! Oh, don't understand the word RESPONSIBILITY, huh? NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!! NEXTTT!

[alisasny]

While I respect your opinion.... WALK a MILE in his shoes then get back to me....

Let you and I both never have to lose a child as he

[hattend]

Winona Ryder Gets Three Years' Probation
Fri Dec 6, 3:33 PM ET

By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Winona Ryder (news) was sentenced Friday to work with the sick, the blind and babies with AIDS (news - web sites) as part of a probationary term for stealing more than $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store.

"If you steal again you will go to jail," Superior Court Judge Elden Fox told the actress, who sat watching him solemnly and acknowledged the warning.


The judge ordered her to undergo psychological and drug counseling because "there's going to be a need for you to confront what I consider aberrant behavior."


A probation report, which the defense unsuccessfully sought to keep sealed, cited an investigation that found Ryder had received 37 medications from 20 doctors between January 1996 and December 1998.


He imposed three years of probation and said Ryder must appear in court April 7 for a status report.


Ryder also was ordered to perform 480 hours of community service — 240 hours at the City of Hope medical center, 120 hours at the Foundation for the Junior Blind, and 120 hours at the Caring for Babies With Aids foundation.


She was ordered to pay $3,700 in fines and restitution of $6,355 to Saks.


Ryder faced up to three years in prison, but prosecutors did not recommend any time behind bars because she had no prior convictions.


Her lawyer, Mark Geragos, suggested that Ryder has been punished more than the average person would be because of the public attack on her character.


"I don't think that one crime should trump all the good she's done in her life," Geragos said, citing Ryder's work with American Indian causes and with the Polly Klaas Foundation for missing children.


At one point, prosecutor Ann Rundle began an angry speech concerning numerous references to the Klaas Foundation. Mark Klaas has supported Ryder, who donated a reward after his 12-year-old daughter was kidnapped from her Petaluma home and slain in 1993.

"What's offensive to me is to trot out the body of a dead child," the prosecutor began. "I've heard this for over a year."

Geragos objected loudly and Ryder rose partly from her seat, glaring. The judge admonished Rundle to stick to the shoplifting case.

Outside court, Klaas said he was outraged by the reference to his daughter and credited Ryder with an unsolicited act of benevolence.

"Winona Ryder may be a double-felon, but she's a double-felon with a heart," he said.

The two-time Academy Award nominee was convicted last month of felony grand theft and vandalism for her infamous Dec. 12, 2001, shopping trip to the Beverly Hills store.

Ryder had numerous prescription drugs in her possession when she was arrested. One drug count was filed but it was eventually dropped when a doctor said he had prescribed it. The probation report revealed she also had a syringe in her purse.

"She had more medication in her purse than would be given to a person with a terminal disease," Rundle said.

Geragos responded that Ryder had "a pain-management problem" for some time. He angrily accused the district attorney's office of "doing everything they could to destroy this woman" and said he had tried repeatedly to settle the case without a trial.

During the trial, jurors were shown videotapes of Ryder wandering through the store's designer boutiques and taking a large number of items into dressing rooms.

Security staff testified that after Ryder was caught, she claimed a director had told her to shoplift to prepare for a movie role.

Ryder, who began her film career as a teenager in 1986, earned Academy Award nominations for "Little Women" and "The Age of Innocence." She also starred in the movie "Girl, Interrupted."

[hattend]

Is that middle picture Micheal Nesmith of the Monkees? He must be 70 by now. LOL.