Accused chair tosser expecting charges against her dropped: lawyer
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The woman charged with hurling a chair off a high-rise downtown balcony is expecting all charges against her to be dropped, her lawyer said on Friday.
A video of Marcella Zoia, 19, went viral earlier this year when the bottle server at high-end bars launched the chair into the public domain below.
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Zoia, who wasn’t in court on Friday, is charged with mischief endangering life, mischief damaging property valued under $5,000 and being a common nuisance.
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Lawyer Gregory Leslie told the Old City Hall court he has had the first pretrial meeting with the Crown.
“We are hoping for a discharge,” Leslie said outside court.
“We probably have four of five pretrials. There is a long way to go.”
Leslie has said that Zoia only tossed the chair because of peer pressure, and has since paid the price because her act got her kicked out of a dental hygienist course.
Zoia is out on $2,000 bail and is forced to live with her mother.
“She is living at home and doing fine … and trying to get into another school,” Leslie said.
Zoia and her act, plus an array of sexy postings of herself on social media attracted international media attention.
Her next court date is June 14.
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