Courtney Love's lawyers have failed in an attempt to get the singer's pending assault charges reduced to lesser misdemeanour charges. In the latest in a string of legal woes, Love is charged of assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly attacking a woman at an ex-boyfriend's house in LA back in Apr.
After hearing the case for reducing the level of the charges, Superior Court Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said yesterday: "There is uncontroverted evidence that without provocation the defendant threw a bottle at the victim and chased her with a flashlight".
The decision followed a testimony by Kristin King, the woman Love is alleged to have attacked. She told the court that Love was "vicious" and "erratic" when she allegedly attacked her while she slept on a sofa. She told the court Love sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast in the "worst pinch I ever had".
Speaking outside the court, Love's lawyer Howard Weitzman said that despite his client's many legal problems at the moment she was on good form and keen to end her recent string of run-ins with the law.