William Kennedy Smith Pleads No Contest in Assault

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 23, 1993| Author: Charles W. Hall | Copyright information

William Kennedy Smith has pleaded no contest to charges that he punched a bouncer outside an Arlington County bar last month, agreeing to provide 100 hours of medical care at a community clinic in Chicago, prosecutors said yesterday.

Under a plea agreement, Smith, who was acquitted nearly two years ago in a widely publicized Florida date-rape case, was placed on unsupervised probation for 12 months by General District Court Judge Francis Thomas on Friday. If Smith commits no offenses ...

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