OFF EASY: Rob Morrison yesterday leaves the courthouse in Stamford, Conn., after yelling at the lawyer for his estranged wife, Ashley (inset). (
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Hotheaded former TV anchorman Rob Morrison cut a deal yesterday to avoid jail for threatening to kill his wife — then promptly raged at her lawyer in a courthouse hallway.
The disgraced former news reader pulled aside lawyer Nancy Aldrich and gave her a tongue-lashing over allegations that he choked now-estranged wife and fellow TV anchor Ashley Morrison during the drunken rage that helped torpedo his career at WCBS/Channel 2.
“You’re representing a completely untruthful position. How can you do that?” Morrison angrily demanded.
“She never told you the truth about that night.”
As Aldrich tried to answer, Morrison interrupted, saying, “She’s saying I never strangled her? The judge doesn’t care. She made a false statement that night.”
Aldrich then insisted, “There was no misrepresentation of the facts.”
Earlier, the tall and dashing ex-Marine entered conditional guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of threatening and disorderly conduct for his vodka- fueled vow to cops that he would be “f–king killing” his wife after his February arrest.
According to a police report, Ashley, an anchor for “CBS MoneyWatch,” bashed Rob in the face with a TV remote control to stop him from choking her on a couch in their million-dollar home in ritzy Darien, Conn.
Three days later, Morrison quit his high-profile job after The Post revealed that Ashley’s brother previously told cops that Morrison had threatened to “shoot their son in front of her and then shoot her” if she ever left him.
Under terms of his plea bargain, Morrison didn’t have to cop to a felony count of strangulation, and will have his record wiped clean if he stays out of trouble for two years and completes a pair of domestic-violence programs.
He also has to take a psychiatric exam, undergo substance-abuse treatment and submit to random urine tests.
Morrison refused to comment to reporters after entering his guilty pleas, but on his way out of Stamford Superior Court, he told photographers that he thought Judge Gary White — who offered him the deal — was “a wise judge.”
When asked if he would comply with the terms, he said: “Of course. Who wouldn’t?”
Ashley’s lawyer declined to comment.