Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amy Fisher Asks for New Trial > NEW YORK (AP) -- Amy Fisher, the Long Island teen-ager > who pleaded guilty to shooting her lover's wife, has > requested a trial on grounds that prosecutors have > broken a promise to free her by now. > > Her lawyer, Bruce A. Barket, asked that Fisher's > five-year-old plea be tossed out and that she be freed > from prison on bail. > > ``The district attorney made promises to her that were > not kept,'' Barket said Wednesday, referring to a plea > bargain. He has filed a motion in Nassau County Court > asking for the trial she never had. > > Fisher pleaded guilty to assault in the 1992 near-fatal > shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover > Joey Buttafuoco. Buttafuoco served six months in jail > for statutory rape of Fisher, who was 16 at the time of > their affair. > > Barket said prosecutor Denis Dillon had offered the > plea bargain with the promise that after Fisher served > five years in prison, the prosecutor would recommend > parole. > > Ed Grilli, a spokesman for Dillon, said the agreement > never existed. > > Fisher is imprisoned at the Albion Correctional > Facility outside of Buffalo. At a parole hearing last > year, prosecutors recommended Fisher be denied freedom > and the board complied. > > Fisher isn't eligible for another parole hearing until > June 1999. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
