{"id":50925,"date":"2009-05-16T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T01:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2009\/05\/16\/gerard-butler-charged-with-battery\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T01:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T01:24:43","slug":"gerard-butler-charged-with-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2009\/05\/16\/gerard-butler-charged-with-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Butler charged with battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>City prosecutors have charged Gerard Butler with misdemeanor battery in connection with a scuffle with a paparazzo.<br \/>\nRecords show prosecutors filed the charge in a Hollywood courthouse on Wednesday.<br \/>\nLos Angeles City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said Butler faces up to six months in jail if convicted.<br \/>\nMateljan said the Scottish-born actor had a run-in with a photographer early on Oct. 7 in Hollywood after leaving a premiere party for the film \u201cRocknRolla.\u201d<br \/>\nButler\u2019s manager, Alan Siegel, said that the actor was forced to have his driver stop the car after a paparazzo repeatedly sped through red lights and almost struck two pedestrians.<br \/>\nThe actor\u2019s attorney, Blair Berk, said Butler is not required to \u2014 and won\u2019t \u2014 appear in court on the charge.<br \/>\nButler, 39, is perhaps best-known for his role in 2006\u2019s hit \u201c300,\u201d and starred in \u201cRocknRolla.\u201d<br \/>\nButler\u2019s next big screen release will be this summer\u2019s \u201cThe Ugly Truth,\u201d a romantic comedy also starring Katherine Heigl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City prosecutors have charged Gerard Butler with misdemeanor battery in connection with a scuffle with a paparazzo. Records show prosecutors filed the charge in a Hollywood courthouse on Wednesday. Los Angeles City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said Butler faces up to six months in jail if convicted. Mateljan said the Scottish-born actor had a run-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}