“Jackass” star Brandon “Bam” Margera need to stand demo on fees that he punched his brother for the duration of an altercation at their household around Philadelphia, a judge dominated Thursday although buying him to get a drug and alcohol screening to keep on being free on bail.
Margera appeared in a West Chester, Pennsylvania, courtroom Thursday for a preliminary hearing. He wore sunglasses and a suit, holding hands with his girlfriend and posing for pics together with his legal workforce before getting into the courthouse as a result of a revolving door.
Margera briefly spoke of his travel difficulties prior to going for walks into the courthouse, but didn’t deal with any of the charges, nor did his lawful workforce.
The truth star arrived late for his hearing immediately after he claimed he acquired held up throughout a layover in Houston, Texas, although touring back to West Chester from Los Angeles, the place he’s been staying recently.
The appear on Thursday was more polished than when he surrendered on the assault rates in April whilst carrying a button down shirt and not smiling for cameras.
Thursday’s court hearing
Margera, 43, was charged in April a number of times following an arrest warrant was announced by Pennsylvania Point out Police. Margera disappeared for days prior to turning up to experience arrest.
Margera pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor fees, which include things like very simple assault and making terroristic threats. He has been free on $50,000 bail and explained Thursday that he has been in drug and alcohol cure this year and residing with former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom.
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“I’m not attempting to get him in difficulties right here. I just want him to get the aid because I really feel like this is our previous opportunity,” Margera’s brother, Jess Margera, claimed in testifying about what he identified as two many years of troubling conduct by his brother, which he mentioned escalated for the duration of a “frightening and unpredictable” two-week check out at their Chester County home in April.
He said that Bam — upset on a Sunday morning after seeing a textual content that recommended he essential mental wellbeing treatment — struck him in the nose and ear and ruptured his eardrum. Jess Margera’s girlfriend identified as police just after Bam kicked in her bed room doorway, he claimed.
“I don’t know what we’re carrying out here,” attorney Michael van der Veen claimed. “This is a disagreement concerning two brothers on a Sunday early morning around coffee.”
He argued that the brothers often carry out this sort of antics for the cameras. The Chester County justice of the peace turned down the argument, noting that no cameras have been rolling at the time.
Prosecutors agreed to drop two of 4 counts of terroristic threats stemming from allegations that Bam Margera threatened to shoot a variety of spouse and children users and left his brother a threatening take note. Neither the brother nor prosecutors prompt that he had entry to a gun.
By the stop of the hearing, both of those sides seemed most intrigued in making sure that he continues to be in cure.
“We want to make positive you’re harmless, secure and alive,” stated Decide Albert Iacocca, who questioned what experienced enthusiastic him to go to cure this 12 months.
“To see my son Phoenix, who’s 5,” Bam Margera reported.
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Margera, who also starred in the MTV fact sequence “Viva La Bam,” wrote on social media after his arrest that the allegations “are not true,” and the brothers threatened to sue each and every other above the conflict.
“I don’t treatment about the money,” Jess Barbera claimed. “My brother’s a superior dude when he’s not messed up. I don’t feel he would hurt a fly. It’s just when he’s been up for times, it’s terrifying.”
Margera’s attorney Michael van der Veen at that April listening to spoke to reporters.
“My client is presumed harmless,” van der Veen said immediately after Margera was produced on bail again in April. “The rumors that have been currently being handed close to by his brother by way of this previous week have been nothing small of defamation and that will be taken care of in one more courthouse.”
In a penned statement, van der Veen included “the wild rumors about his actions this week are totally wrong. He is in superior wellbeing and in superior spirits.”
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