Alleged NYC subway cellist attacker pleads guilty – then changes her mind in bizarre court scene
NY Post
A woman accused of attacking a subway cellist with a bottle tried to plead guilty Wednesday – only to be talked out of it in a bizarre scene in Manhattan court.
Amira Hunter, 23, was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on assault charges for bashing cellist Iain S. Forrest in the head while he performed in the Herald Square subway station on Feb. 19.
When asked by a clerk how she planned to plea to the alleged assault, Hunter responded “guilty” quickly — only for her frantic lawyer, Molly Kamus, to jump in and stop her from saying anything further.
The pair had a hushed conversation at the defense table inside Judge Gregory Carro’s courtroom before the judge asked whether the attorney wanted to change the plea, which she agreed to.
Hunter — who sported a beige prison jumpsuit — then flashed smiles and several times stuck her tongue out to photographers in the jury well during the proceeding, where prosecutors asked the judge to beef up her bail following a March 5 shoplifting arrest that came after she was set put on supervised release by Judge Marva Brown in the subway attack.
Hunter found herself back in handcuffs and in front of the judge again for allegedly swiping a $325 Moncler baseball cap from a Midtown Nordstrom.
