Beverly Hills, June 03: A court hearing into shoplifting charges against Winona Ryder that began with an irked judge ordering the Oscar-nominated actress to court was interrupted on Monday when she was apparently injured during a media scrum outside the courthouse.
In a bizarre twist to an already strange day, Ryder`s attorney told superior court Judge Elden Fox that his famous client could not go on with the hearing, which had already been postponed four times, because she needed medical attention. Attorney Mark Geragos told Fox that Ryder, in trying to return to court amid a crush of television cameras and reporters, was struck on her right elbow -- which was still sensitive from a previous injury -- by a piece of equipment.
Ryder gingerly nursed her right elbow as judge Fox excused the parties from court and asked that they return on a date to be determined later. Television footage of the incident, meanwhile, showed Ryder nursing her left elbow immediately after the brush with a cameraman. Geragos had arrived in court without Ryder, explaining to Fox that he was seeking another postponement of the matter despite an earlier admonition by the judge that he would not delay the sixth-month old case again. Fox also rejected an 11th-hour motion by Geragos to have the Los Angeles County District Attorney`s Office removed from the case over allegations by the high-profile defense attorney that they had an "ax to grind" against Ryder.
Bureau Report