April 10, 2007
Oh, Where Art Thou GleeGate?
Yesterday, the 415 twosome, the only one's actually charged with anything, met up in court to once again enter their pleas. This time around, the second member of the 415 Gang, Brian Dwyer entered a plea of not guilty to charges he kicked the living sh-- out of one of the Yalies. The kid, Brian Dwyer, is charged with assault and battery and if found guilty and if actually sent to jail for all of this, could face seven years in prison. Yikes-- if we were Dwyer, we'd be totally freaked out right about now as this all came from one bad, drunken decision. The other one, Richard Aicardi, entered his plea of not guilty on March 8th.
We're not sure how this will work out, though, because according to police records, Dwyer admitted to kicking one of the Yalies but is now pleading the opposite. Not to go with "the Wire" again, but maybe he pulled a Wee-Bey and took the hit for everyone else in his gang? Richard Aicardi's lawyer told the court that "just because somebody loses in a fight, it doesn't tell you who's responsible for the fight, who instigated the fight, or who started the fight." In other words, those darn Yalies are merely whining because they lost the fight. And in containing with our HBO theme, maybe the Yalies could get their revenge for losing the fight by sending Aicardi and Dwyer up to Quebec to whack somebody? Dwyer's lawyer also added "since when do 15 young men, college friends together, beg to not be involved in a fight..." Ummm....all the time?
The case will once again be taken up in court sometime next month.


Homie needs a new lawyer. That "boys will be boys" approach is gonna get him some jail time.
it may play well in the Imus listening category, but not with San Francisco juries.
You wouldn't happen to be from Yale by any chance?
Nice "Wire" reference!
But let's not lose sight of what happened here: A bunch of rich kids from Connecticut and New York got into a fight with a bunch of rich kids from San Francisco...and that's about it. The "415" boys won, but it doesn't change the fact that this is a pointless news story. How about solving the 20-someting homocides this year in SF? Or is that less important because there are less lawyers and rich daddies and mommies involved? I hate rich people.
so Jon is the resident Republican on staff at sfist? thought so.
I'm pretty sure that guy is innocent. There is no way he could kick anyone's ass.
He actually kinda looks like a bigger, tougher Steakfrites.