Charges Dropped Against Kiefer Sutherland

After Kiefer Sutherland went all Jack Bauer on someone's face via a headbutt last month, he was charged with, um, headbutting or assault or something. Anyway, now according to AP, he's off the hook, and I don't mean that in the inner city, urban slang way:

Kiefer Sutherland's legal troubles for allegedly head-butting a fashion designer in a New York City nightclub are over.

The Manhattan district attorney's spokeswoman said Tuesday that misdemeanor assault charges against the actor are being dropped because the alleged victim wouldn't cooperate with prosecutors.

The star of the Fox TV show "24" was charged in May after designer Jack McCollough said Sutherland head-butted him and broke his nose in a Manhattan nightclub.

Sutherland and McCollough issued a joint statement a few weeks later saying they had resolved their differences. Sutherland apologized to McCollough in the statement.

Now he can go back to what's important - stopping mass destruction in exactly 24 hours one day per year.

7.22.09 at 12:25:43 PM