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McGraw, Chesney Lasso New Judge
The country singers, facing charges for some alleged horse thievery, were facing the prospect of having their trial declared a mistrial after the judge presiding over the case suffered a heart attack last week.
On Monday, however, the two singers returned to the courtroom in the town of Orchard Park, New York, a Buffalo suburb, to learn their trial would continue with a new judge taking over.
The star-studded case (which has also featured McGraw's wife, Faith Hill, giving her hubby moral support from the gallery) kicked off one week ago. The two singers are facing charges stemming from a post-concert incident last June in which Chesney hopped up on a police horse and began riding around. A sheriff's deputy, not realizing the singer had permission to ride the steed, tried to pull him down. McGraw and his road manager, Mark Russo, then began scuffling with the deputy and other officers.
McGraw, 34, and Russo are being tried on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a sheriff's deputy and face up to a year in prison each if convicted. Chesney, 33, charged with a disorderly conduct violation, faces 15 days in jail.
The trial was put on hold Thursday after Town Justice Edmund Brown Jr., 66, was rushed from the courtroom to a Buffalo hospital after suffering a heart attack. Another local justice, John Curran, read the trial transcript over the weekend and announced Monday he was taking over.
Curran also said he will ask the six-person jury to give him an advisory verdict in the case against Chesney. The singer's verdict was originally to be determined by Judge Brown. McGraw and Russo's fates will be determined by the jury.
If the case had been declared a mistrial, a new jury would have been selected and both sides would have had to start over from the beginning.
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