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Balloon boy parents Richard and Muyami Heene enter guilty pleas
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by smkovalinsky | 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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at 11:59 on November 12th, 2009
Such a bad idea of theirs...
at 07:40 on November 13th, 2009
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.