Contempt Conviction of 'Peanuts' Actress is Voided (Classic 'Lucy' is Animal Rights Activist)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Contempt conviction of 'Peanuts' actress is voided

Associated Press
Posted: 03/12/2009 03:16:59 PM PDT

SANTA MONICA— A judge threw out a contempt-of-court conviction and ordered a new trial for an animal rights activist who was the voice of Lucy in several "Peanuts" television specials, her attorney said today.
Pamelyn Ferdin had faced up to five days in jail and a $1,000 fine until Wednesday, when Superior Court Judge John Segal voided her 2008 conviction. He scheduled a new trial for April 28, said attorney George Seide.

Ferdin, 50, was convicted of violating a court injunction that barred harassment of University of California, Los Angeles, faculty members who used animals in research. Last June, Ferdin demonstrated outside the home of a UCLA primate researcher and handed out fliers that included home addresses, phone numbers and photographs of some researchers, Seide said. A previous injunction against other animal rights activists barred such activity. A judge found that Ferdin was acting "in concert" with them, even though she wasn't named in the injunction, Seide said.

At trial, Ferdin testified she had downloaded the flier from a Web site and wasn't aware that the information fell under the injunction.
In fighting the conviction, Seide argued that Ferdin's constitutional rights were violated because she wasn't informed that she had the right to counsel and of her right against self-incrimination before she took the stand.

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Ferdin was a child actress who made appearances on many TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s, including "The Brady Bunch" and "The Odd Couple." She was the voice of Lucy on two 1969 specials, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" and "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown," and 1971's "Play It Again, Charlie Brown."

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Note: "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was not a TV special, but a feature-length motion picture, the first Peanuts movie.

[superconnected]

1. Go Lucy!

[pepperbear]

2. I remember that actress....

she was on everyone's TV show in the 60s and 70s.

[Hissyspit]

3. I think she was the first Lucy.

[regnaD kciN]

4. No, the first Lucy was Tracy Stratford...

...in A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965.

[Hissyspit]

5. Oops. I meant to type THIRD.

Yes, Tracy Stratford first and Sally Dryer second.

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. She also killed Clint Eastwood's character in "The Beguiled"

Mc B. (Eastwood) had it coming- he killed Amy's (Ferdin) turtle. And he was a major perv, as well.

Remember, if she invites you over for dinner- don't eat the mushrooms!