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September 17, 2007

Update: Assault case against Paz dismissed

A District Court judge today dismissed a case against former boxer Vinny Paz after the woman he was accused of assaulting failed to appear in court.

At issue, according to Judge William Clifton, was Paz’s Sixth Amendment right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

But despite looking for her in her hometown, Eliot, Maine, as well as in Massachusetts and this state, prosecutors could not find Ashley P. Spencer, the woman police found two months ago, crying with a bloody nose near Paz’s home in Warwick.

The prosecutor in the case was Robert Sgroi and Paz's lawyer was William Devine.

Paz, a five-time boxing world champion, pleaded no contest last month to a drunken driving charge after the police found him asleep at the wheel of his running Jeep, parked in a gas station. He was sentenced to substance-abuse counseling and 60 hours of community service.

Paz worked as a sports commentator on television, and endorsed several products since he retired from boxing in 2004. He’s currently playing the lead in Thunder Doyle, a movie being filmed in Rhode Island.

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