Matthew Newton avoids US conviction
Actor Matthew Newton has avoided a conviction in the US because he has accepted a diversion program.
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Actor Matthew Newton has avoided a conviction in the US following an appearance in Miami Dade County Court for two incidents earlier this year.
Newton, 35, was not required to address the court and was not required to enter a guilty plea.
Newton must complete 50 hours of community service, write a letter of apology to a hotel clerk he assaulted and pay him $US11,500 ($11,000) restitution and stay away from both him and the bar where he was accused of trespass, Mr Moe’s.
He will not need to attend the anger course after the prosecution because he has had a long term stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, in New York.
Newton, 35, who was facing charges of trespass and for assaulting a hotel clerk in two separate cases, appeared in the Miami Dade County Court in a hearing that lasted less than two minutes.
A Miami Dade court spokesperson stated after the hearing that Newton, whose charges were in the lowest misdemeanour category, did not have to enter a plea because he had accepted the diversion program.
In September, in Sydney, NSW chief magistrate Graeme Henson accepted that Newton suffered bi-polar and other mental disorders and local charges should be handled under the Mental Health Act.
Source: Herald Sun
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Four assaults – four ‘no’ convictions. I only thought cat’s had ‘nine’ lives.
One law for one group, another for the rest.
While it is easy to hate Mathew there can be no doubt he has mental health issues. On the news this morning he actually looked well for the first time in a long while. I wish him well.