REM’s Buck Acquitted
from the shining-happy-medicated-people dept.
Proving that having charismatic rock stars as character witnesses never hurts, REM guitarist Peter Buck has been acquitted by a British jury in his “air rage” trial. The jury apparently bought Buck’s assertion that it was an unintended side effect of a sleeping pill, rather than a prodigious quantity of wine, that caused him to wig out on the British Airways flight. The prosecution branded Buck a liar, but jurors apparently found the testimony of U2’s Bono, who characterized Buck as “famously peaceful,” more compelling. Cool.
July 5th, 2004 at 2:03 pm
I would have loved to been there for bonos testimony