Sean Penn May Have Broken Court Pact

Actor Sean Penn may have violated the agreement he made with the court so he could delay a jail sentence for beating up a movie extra, prosecutors said.

If the reports that Penn has been sighted in the United States when he was supposed to be in Germany making a movie are true, it could mean he has violated an agreement with Municipal Court Commissioner Juelann Cathey.

“Reports came to our attention that Mr. Penn was seen in the United States,” Mike Qualls, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office, said Thursday. “We are looking into the circumstances of those reports.”

Penn, 26, was given a delay in serving a 60-day jail term for having violated probation by assaulting an extra on the set of the unreleased movie “Colors,” in which he plays a police officer.

Qualls said the court agreed to the delay after being told that Penn, the star of such films as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Bad Boys” and “The Falcon and the Snowman,” was scheduled to begin shooting a film in West Germany on July 11.

Penn’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, was out of town and unavailable for comment.