It all looked so simple last week – Charlie Sheen would plead no contest to attacking his wife on Christmas day.
And he’d go to jail. Not for a particularly long time, you understand. 30 days, tops – half if he behaved himself. What could be simpler than that? However, something appears to have gone wrong. Charlie Sheen hasn’t gone to jail yet. He hasn’t even pleaded no contest to his charges. So what’s going on?
According to reports, Charlie Sheen’s lawyers have apparently hit a ‘snag’ and they need more time to work out an agreement. And now everything’s been postponed until next month. We’re not sure what that means for Two And A Half Men, although if it means they can’t make any new shows for a while, we’re all for it. Hooray for the legal system!
Weird how things work out, isn’t it? Chris Brown gets arrested for hitting a woman, escapes with community service and sees his career destroyed forever. Charlie Sheen gets arrested for hitting a woman, looks set to go?to prison for an entire month as a best-case scenario and he’s still allowed to make his stupid TV show.
That’s assuming that Charlie Sheen does go to prison. Last week it seemed certain that he would – reports confidently claimed that he’d plead no contest to beating up his wife on Christmas day, so long as prosecutors forgot about the bit where he allegedly held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her, and he’d spend 30 days in jail as a result.
But now? God knows. People reports:
Charlie Sheen’s expected sentencing to 30 days in jail and work duty at a community theater was postponed Monday, with a new hearing now set for July 12 in an Aspen court to resolve the actor’s?domestic violence case.?”We’ve hit a snag,” Pitken County District Attorney Arnold Mordkin said.
So what does that mean, exactly? Here are three possibilities:
1 – Charlie Sheen may have backed out of the plea deal. This means that, while he may end up avoiding jail altogether, he might get saddled with a much longer sentence as a result.
2 – Charlie Sheen’s lawyers are arguing over the details of the plea deal. So, for instance, while it’s thought that his sentence will include a stint of community service working at an Aspen theatre, it’s possible that Charlie will only do it if he’s wearing his special fake moustache on the basis that the ladies love it.
3 – Something else that has nothing to do with either of those two things whatsoever. We’re not lawyers, you know. We really can’t make that clear enough.
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Impulse Magazine says
Simply due to the fact that he is rich and has money
tezgah says
I doubt he is going to go to jail. His lawyers will negotiate for community service probably.
TheProfessor69 says
…It is because he would not be allowed to SMOKE , they do not allow smoking in and or around the place he is supposed to go. He evidently will do hard time in the joint as long as he have his fags. He is a chain smoker and has been since his teen years…smart fellow.