Billy Joe Shaver pleads no contest to gun charge
By Tommy Witherspoon / Tribune-Herald staff writer
Wednesday June 16, 2010
Singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver was fined $1,000 today after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor gun charge.
Billy Joe Shaver
Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald, file
Shaver, 70, of Waco, was acquitted of aggravated assault in April in a March 2007 altercation at Papa Joe's Saloon near Lorena in which Shaver shot Billy Coker in the face with a small .22-caliber pistol.
While the self-styled "Honky Tonk Hero" was determined to have acted in self-defense in the shooting, charges that he took a gun into a bar remained.
Prosecutors Mark Parker and Beth Toben agreed to reduce the gun charge from a third-degree felony to a Class A misdemeanor as part of the plea bargain. Shaver also agreed to forfeit the gun.
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