David Pogue, Wife's Domestic Dispute Charges Dropped

WESTPORT, Conn. — Connecticut prosecutors have dismissed a criminal case stemming from a domestic dispute last month between a New York Times technology columnist and his wife.

Attorneys for David Pogue and his wife, Jennifer, said both sides wanted to drop disorderly conduct charges against each other. Prosecutors agreed and the case was dismissed Wednesday during brief proceedings at Norwalk Superior Court.

Pogue and his wife had been issued misdemeanor summonses after a confrontation May 16 in their Westport home, which the couple shared as they pursued divorce proceedings.

David Pogue's attorney, Mark Sherman, said Wednesday that Pogue is relieved and the outcome was what he was hoping for.

Attorney Wayne Keeney, who represents Jennifer Pogue, said neither spouse wanted to pursue the charges against the other, but that prosecutors recommended family counseling.

Comments

[PiperSniper]

09:23 AM on 06/24/2011

Particularly liked the last paragraph where family counselling is recommended for the divorcing couple.

[dewbatty]

04:50 AM on 06/24/2011

Why do we need to know about this?

[Philm35]

01:17 AM on 06/24/2011

Hey Huffpost- It's getting harder by the day to read you without being embarrassed. Let's try sticking to actual news, please.

[Gregory Schwartz]

04:11 PM on 06/23/2011

Whatever happened to "for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part"????? I know women like to change their minds, but these are vows that are taken before God, and should not be taken lightly. We have become a nation of selfish individuals who take and throw away for their own selfish interests.

[born 2b different]

10:05 AM on 06/24/2011

You can't contractualize love and emotions. When you fall out of love, it's over.

[vietnamvet1967]

03:18 PM on 06/23/2011

2 Clowns living together, what a joke

[xiaogermaine8]

02:15 PM on 06/23/2011

Come on HUFFPOST In 1982, the United States experienced the highest annual unemployment rate since the Great Depression – 9.7 percent. Today the rate just went higher and in one day 215,000 new unemployment applications were filed. Just a blip? This is news and you are telling us about David who?

[KC-CAJUN]

01:56 PM on 06/23/2011

This is front-page news? How does this affect 99.99999% of the population?

[LonosCurse]

11:21 AM on 06/24/2011

It's changed my life substantially.






What were we talking about?

[KC-CAJUN]

10:26 AM on 06/26/2011

Beats me. I feel like a changed person, too. Maybe a quarter, or dime...nickel? :P

I had to read the title of the article to remember why I wrote what I wrote. Then I wondered why I took the time to write what I wrote.

[Dennis Adams]

01:39 PM on 06/23/2011

I can understand an ugly divorce, but working for the New York Times?? This guy should be arrested.

[Veronica]

09:29 PM on 06/23/2011

Huh? He WAS arrested, and now the charges are being dropped. And what does the NYT have to do with it besides being Pogue's employer?

[LonosCurse]

11:23 AM on 06/24/2011

No one appreciates humor anymore. I mean it wasn't a great joke but your question was unnecessary.

[Dennis Adams]

02:21 PM on 06/24/2011

I think working at the NYT can have a maddening effect on people. I am basing that on Krugman's posts.

[Laura Mom]

01:10 PM on 06/23/2011

The guy should be arrested and jailed just for working at the New York Manifesto Times!

[LonosCurse]

11:24 AM on 06/24/2011

It could have been worse. It could have been the Wall Street Journal.

[badman5150]

12:27 PM on 06/23/2011

I know this is off topic, but when you select "Obama's New Plan to Curb Oil Prices", nothing comes up. I wonder if this is a mistake or if this IS the plan.

[frankerin]

01:21 PM on 06/23/2011

Offtopic? But...But you are a badge holder. Shame

[libertarianj]

01:55 AM on 06/23/2011

I think charges should be brought up on every NY Times columnist for contempt of truth.

[Not R Not D American]

11:52 AM on 06/23/2011

That is extremely funny, Fanned

[Helema Alkaabi]

03:13 PM on 06/23/2011

fanned n faved!!

[arkymorgan]

08:40 PM on 06/22/2011

The moment journalists decided to drop themselves into their reportage, and when it was no longer possible to maintain the hard line between news and op-ed, journalists opened themselves up for this type of scrutiny.

When reporters gave up the trust reposed in them to actually report, to go after the news instead of parroting back whatever points were fed to them (but governments, by coporations and lobbyists, or by the media megacorpse owners), and decided to become entertainment personalities in their own right, they lost their positions as intermediaries.

If they now are reported on and their lives laid bare, warts and all, they have only themselves to blame.

[frankerin]

01:32 PM on 06/23/2011

But what is a journalist, what is a reporter, or a news anchor, or an opinionator, or a PUNDIT, or a blogger (PUNDIT)? They shift hats faster than the elites at a wedding. But a blogger! Well, the court has decided just recently that bloggers are not protected as journalists. What this means I don't know. That professional news people (what is news - lately it's court cases and body hunts) have the protection of the first amendment I agree and accept, but condemn the personality news and scandal news, and lately the obsequese of unknown media people they filll their fiancial need to produce. But while the bloggers were hiding behind the journalist defence, they often spewed noisy trouble which confused things royally, to no common good. Now they are just common opinions and not unsubstantiated garbage pickers. That the actual news media persons with professional credentials can and do make fools of themselves in public, I certainly smile, but the so called news of their problems is not the kind of 'news' I want and I resent the space and time taken with all this nonsense.

[SemperVeritas]

08:17 PM on 06/22/2011

I frankly don't think this is anybody's business except the Pogues.

HP, do you really need to compete with National Enquirer?
Or are you aggregating from that source as well as the NYT???

[Not R Not D American]

11:54 AM on 06/23/2011

I wober how they both got citation's? Maybe the police got called, DUH. Are you a Liberal?

[Not R Not D American]

11:55 AM on 06/23/2011

wonder, I wonder how I misspelled that

[RoundPonda]

08:00 PM on 06/22/2011

David: At all cost, Keep your Job, you do a fine one...

[stape45]

07:50 PM on 06/22/2011

I’ll never understand why a man would marry a woman he doesn’t respect, or remain married to one that he no longer respects.

[DMSmith]

01:53 AM on 06/23/2011

...and a woman?
Also...note that they are in the midst of a divorce - as in having decided NOT to remain married. Just as you suggest.