UNCLE KRACKER REGRETS GUILTY PLEA
LATEST: DJ UNCLE KRACKER regrets pleading guilty to an August (07) assault charge, but felt obliged to do so to avoid drawing out the court case any longer.
Kracker - real name Matthew Shafer - was sentenced to 12 months’ probation, ordered to undergo an alcohol assessment and fined $1,500 (£750) in September (07) after he was accused of assaulting a woman in a Raleigh, North Carolina nightclub over the summer.
Kid Rock’s former collaborator was arrested by local authorities after a 26-year-old woman approached an off-duty police officer in a nightclub to report Shafer had put his hand up her skirt. He was charged with second-degree forcible sex but pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in an effort to avoid a trial.
And Shafer maintains the action was not sexually motivated, but claims he was left with little other option than to enter a guilty plea.
He says, "There was no sexual anything involved.
"Assault is a far cry from sexual battery. You can either wait a year, spend 150 grand, go to trial, make more of a debacle out of it, or you can get it over with."
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