A Glendale judge agreed to throw out a misdemeanor battery charge against a 58-year-old woman, who had been accused of hitting an airport security agent at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. Glendale News Press reports that the suspect, Nadine Kay Hays, denied striking the agent and said that the security measures of the airport were out of line.
Nadine Kay Hays was traveling with her 93-year-old mother to Nashville, Tennessee when the incident occurred. She alleges that security workers tried to take a cooler that contained her mother's applesauce, cheese and milk, but that her mother needed those items during the flight for medical reasons. Nadine Kay Hays' Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, Mary Frances Prevost, asserted that airline agencies are supposed to permit liquids on flights to people with medical conditions and disabilities, as long as they declare everything of more than 3 ounces to agents.
"She had every right to bring what she had with her on board, and TSA regulations that are all over the Internet show that to be true," the attorney told Glendale News Press. "Instead, two ignorant agents, rather than taking a look at the regulations, grabbed the cooler."
When Nadine Kay Hays tried to grab the cooler out of the agent's hands, she probably didn't expect to be arrested and taken to Burbank Jail. Earlier this week, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Fred Rotenberg dismissed the case, according to the Burbank Leader. The prosecutors reportedly had no objections during her hearing and the woman probably can breathe a sigh of relief, now that she won't have a battery conviction on her record.
Related Resources:
- Elements of a Battery (FindLaw)
- Assault and Battery Archives (FindLaw's Injured Blog)
- Find a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer (FindLaw)
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