{"id":962,"date":"2006-04-12T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_my_best_perry_mason_ill_tell_the_witness_and_isnt_it_true_that_state_senator_ada_smith_only_drinks_tea.html"},"modified":"2006-04-12T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T17:21:55","slug":"in_my_best_perr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_my_best_perr.html","title":{"rendered":"In My Best Perry Mason, I&#8217;ll Tell The Witness, &#8220;And Isn&#8217;t It True That State Senator Ada Smith Only Drinks Tea?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator Ada Smith&#8217;s attorney has crafted an unbeatable defense &#8212; she couldn&#8217;t have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/more_ada_smith.html\">thrown hot coffee at one of her aides<\/a> because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/408043p-345425c.html\">the legislator only drinks tea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The embattled Queens Democrat, who is charged with third-degree assault for allegedly tossing coffee at former aide Jennifer Jackson, denied the charge to the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like coffee,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I drink tea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the advice of her lawyer, Smith declined to say whether she&#8217;d thrown any hot drink at Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s lawyer, Ravi Batra, said his client&#8217;s preference for tea over coffee is well known. Part of her defense will be a January 2005 News story in which she asked a reporter, &#8220;Would you like to come over and have tea with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also plans to ask prosecutors to &#8220;cordon off the splatter zone&#8221; inside Smith&#8217;s Albany office so forensic experts can search for any trace of spilled coffee.<\/p>\n<p>If none is found, he said, the scenario Jackson described is impossible.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator Ada Smith&#8217;s attorney has crafted an unbeatable defense &#8212; she couldn&#8217;t have thrown hot coffee at one of her aides because the legislator only drinks tea: The embattled Queens Democrat, who is charged with third-degree assault for allegedly tossing coffee at former aide Jennifer Jackson, denied the charge to the Daily News. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}