Pop superstar Madonna's
latest stalker, retired firefighter Robert Linhart, got sentenced on
Wednesday, January 2 by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Laura Ward to
three years' probation for resisting arrest. The 61-year-old former NYC
firefighter was convicted after being arrested twice back in September
2010, after stalking the Material Girl outside her Manhattan apartment.
Police arrested Linhart after he hung around in his SUV outside
Madonna's NY apartment and spray-painted love notes on poster boards.
The poster boards read, "The Universe brought us together in 1992 and
again this year in Prague. Meet me please." The "Like a Virgin" singer's
security then contacted the cops, who made the arrest on charges of
graffiti after Linhart defaced a sidewalk.
A few days after being released, he returned to the same spot and got
arrested for a second time. Linhart was consequently charged and
convicted but only on a single count of resisting arrest, which his
lawyers continued to dispute as Linhart reportedly merely reacted to the
pain from a broken rotator cuff he suffered during the first arrest.
The controversial pop star would have wanted her stalker to be put in
prison but Linhart escaped jail time and was charged only with probation
by Judge Ward on grounds argued by his lawyer, Lawrence LaBrew, "Mr.
Linhart served with the New York City Fire Department for 20 years. He
put his life on the line for the citizens of New York."
Although LaBrew defended his client's probation sentence by saying it
was not a crime to idolize a celebrity, the judge on the case sentenced
Linhart to 3 years' probation and also ordered him to attend anger
management sessions.
The conviction is currently under appeal. "I don't feel the same about
her," Linhart professed. "The woman advocates free speech in Russia and
then she has her security violate my right to free speech."
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