Balloon boy parents Richard and Muyami Heene enter guilty pleas

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | November 12, 2009 at 08:34 am
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The  parents of Falcon Heene who created a hoax last month with regard to the six year old having taken off in a runaway helium balloon will enter pleas of "Guilty"  in court,  their attorney says,  thus avoiding jail time. 

The mother will admit to a charge of false reporting,  while the father,  Richard Heene,  will admit to "attempting to influence a public servant".  The latter is a very strange way,  this writer thinks,  of saying the more straightforward "misleading an official investigation".  

Police accused the family of masterminding the 15 October incident as part of a publicity bid.

The couple, who have three children, will enter their pleas at Larimer County Court on Friday, a statement from their lawyer says.

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Amy Judd

Such a bad idea of theirs...

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Jordan Yerman

They're playing the audio of Richard Heene pleading guilty on CNN, over file footage of the now-infamous balloon. Its really hard to fathom just what they were thinking was going to happen.

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