By Joe Burchell and C.J. Karamargin
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Criminal charges have been refiled against two men accused of throwing cream pies at conservative political columnist Ann Coulter during a speech at the University of Arizona last year.
Phillip Edgar Smith, a UA political science major, and William Zachary Wolff, both 24, were charged in Pima County Justice Court with misdemeanor assault, disorderly conduct and criminal damage last Tuesday, said Dan Benavidez, spokesman for the County Attorney's Office. Similar 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 County Attorney's Office failed to properly notify them of the trial.
This isn't new but does show that the Star is sticking by parts of its previous story.
This is new:
Berkman said that if Coulter got the dismissal postcard, she should have gotten other notices because they were sent to the same address.
Both Smith and Wolff denied a claim in an earlier Coulter column that they "suffered bloody noses and broken bones" when they were apprehended after throwing a pair of tofu cream pies at Coulter, and missing, as she addressed about 2,500 people on the UA campus in October.
UA police Sgt. Eugene said police reports didn't indicate either was injured.
Coulter, in an e-mail to the Star, said her comment was based on what she was told by "eyewitnesses," but she added, "I am not a medical professional, nor did I examine the defendants personally."
Questions for this story had to be e-mailed to her editor, who obtained answers and then e-mailed them back. No direct contact with Coulter was provided.
So, in addition to the Pima County DA's office lying, the eyewitnesses also lied and mislead Coulter about the facts.
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1 comment:
Hey "Cause and Effect" I guess they'll think next time before throwing pies! Besides what if two punks did that to their mother or sister how would they like that?
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