She's guilty and will doubtless do hard time on a chain gang:
- Oscar-nominated actress Winona Ryder was found guilty of shoplifting charges on Wednesday after an extraordinary six-day trial.
A jury of six men and six women convicted Ryder, 31, of walking out of the posh Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills last December with some $5,500 of designer tops, handbags, hairbows and socks stuffed in her shopping bags and hidden on her person.
The panel, which included former Sony Pictures studio head Peter Guber, found her guilty of grand theft and vandalism but not guilty of commercial burglary.
The Oscar-nominated actress had pleaded not guilty to the charges but did not take the stand. Her defense lawyers had argued that she was the victim of an elaborate conspiracy by Saks to frame her.
The verdict by the jury was carried live on television because of the enormous media interest the case generated.
Ryder faces a possible prison term of up to three years when she is sentenced at a later date.
I guess she should have testified. This should send a chill through the rich-people-who-shoplift underground.
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Article comments
1 - Jim Carruthers
Yay! Riot on Sunset Strip, anybody?
Anybody?
2 - Jim Carruthers
Free Winona!
How long till the benefit mp3s start?
3 - Jim Carruthers
I was looking at the breaking news about Winona Ryder, and on the Globe and Mail site, this was the last sentence:
The actress was deemed to be a flight risk and will be freed until sentencing.
With a report from Associated Press
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021106/wryde1106/Front/homeBN/breakingnews
Now I imagine it is just an editing glitch (damn those three letters "not"!) but you have to wonder if the standards for risk assessment are different in Hollywood (hey, OJ).