Anne Burford Faces Drunk Charge After Allegedly Causing Ruckus in Jail
A prominent criminal lawyer will defend former Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne McGill Burford against a $30 public drunkenness charge, it was announced Friday as a hearing in the case was delayed until December.
The lawyer, Plato Cacheris, said Burford will plead not guilty to the charge, filed against her after a reported jail house ruckus.
A Virginia state trooper stopped Burford and her husband, Robert, an Interior Department official, on a freeway last Monday night. He was charged with drunken driving.
Anne Burford was charged when she began loudly demanding to see her husband, authorities said. During her night in jail, guards said, she banged her shoes on the cell bars, screamed obscenities and clawed a guard with her fingernails.
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