Show me the beer!
The 20-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis is fighting her recent misdemeanor drinking-in-public charges with a vengeance, insisting that the specific kind of alcohol she’s charged with imbibing in the Union Square subway station last month — an 8-ounce can of Pakistani beer — simply does not exist.
“Defendant was drinking from an open 8-ounce can of Pakastani [sic] beer containing an alcoholic beverage,” according to the criminal complaint against blond and pretty Brown University student Scout Willis.
Trouble is, the mostly Muslim country’s lone brewery, — the Murree Brewery, founded in 1860 and touted on its Web site as Pakistan’s “oldest continuing enterprise” — doesn’t make or distribute 8-ounce cans of beer, defense lawyer Stacey Richman told Manhattan prosecutors in papers made public yesterday.
“There is only one Pakistani brewery, and it is not permitted to export beer products from Pakistan,” Richman wrote prosecutors.
“This information is derived from direct inquiries with the only remaining brewery in Pakistan,” she wrote. “They do make a non-alcoholic beverage, but that can has an 11-ounce container.”
According to its Web site, Murree brewskis come only in 500-milliliter cans — the Pakistani equivalent of a tall boy.
“I’m requesting the DA let me inspect this so-called 8-ounce Pakistani beer can,” Richman told The Post. “I don’t know whether they have it. I don’t know whether it’s beer. I don’t know if it’s a Sprite.”
And if prosecutors can’t show it was beer, then they never should have stopped and questioned Willis, the lawyer argues in her papers, which ask for a pretrial hearing on the matter.
Willis is accused of giving cops a false ID in the name of “Katherine Kelly” before ’fessing up to being an underage celebrity daughter.
Ultimately, the lawyer argues, the fair disposition would be for prosecutors to agree to dismiss the charges under an agreement called a “adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.” An ACD, as it is commonly referred to, would summon Willis back to court in six or 12 months and dismiss the charges providing she has not gotten into any further trouble.
“Ms. Willis is an excellent student at Brown University; she is involved in a multitude of extracurricular activities,” Richman wrote.
The DA’s office declined to comment. Willis is due back in court on July 31.