Amy Winehouse Off the Hook for Drunken Assault

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Jan 20th 2010 07:09AM

Amy Winehouse pleaded guilty Wednesday to drunkenly assaulting a theater manager at a family Christmas show, and was ordered to pay her victim 185 pounds ($300) in costs and compensation. The judge also gave the soul diva a conditional discharge, meaning she will avoid further punishment if she stays out of trouble for two years.

"It may be harder than a fine, because you have now got to stay on the straight and narrow for the next two years," District Judge Peter Crabtree said.

The 26-year-old singer admitted charges of disorder and common assault during a Dec. 19 performance of the pantomime 'Cinderella,' starring Mickey Rooney.

Audience members at British pantomimes, or variety shows, are traditionally rambunctious and are encouraged to shout at the stage and join in with the songs.

But prosecutors said Winehouse's behavior went beyond acceptable audience participation. She had been charged under her married name, Amy Civil, after reporting to a police station Dec. 23.

Dressed Wednesday in a white shirt and dark skirt with her beehive hair piled high, Winehouse admitted to lashing out at Richard Pound, front-of-house manager of the Milton Keynes Theater, when he spoke to her about her actions.

The judge said it was "obvious that alcohol played its part" in the incident.

A scrum of photographers met Winehouse as she arrived at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of London.

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Wednesday 20 January

By dsherline

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How in the world do the writers at PopEater figure that if someone is receiving a fine AND two years probation that they are getting "off the hook"? Unless the language and meaning of things have changed dramatically overnight, she didn't get off the hook. She got fined and two years of probation.

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