REPORT: Connie Bernard, embattled Baton Rouge school board member pleads guilty for altercation with teen Bernard was due in court January fourth related to the leak of an explicit video in which she appeared to be involved in a physical and verbal dispute with a teenager on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. (Source: East Baton Rouge Parish School System) By Kevin Foster | December 23, 2020 at 7:36 PM CST - Updated December 23 at 7:36 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Baton Rouge school board member Connie Bernard pleaded guilty to entering and remaining after being forbidden Wednesday, Dec. 23, The Advocate newspaper reports.
Bernard was due in court January fourth related to the leak of an explicit video in which she appeared to be involved in a physical and verbal dispute with a teenager on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018.
Embattled East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member Connie Bernard has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from her 2018 arrest at a teen party in her neighborhood, avoiding a trial that had been set for next month.
Bernard, 59, had been charged with simple battery, and entering and remaining after being forbidden, as a result of her profanity-laced confrontation in August 2018 at a Lakeside home.
She was accused of putting her hands to the neck of a young party-goer.
Bernard, who had pleaded not guilty last year, went to court Dec. 10 with her attorney, John McLindon, and pleaded guilty to the entering and remaining charge, and prosecutors dismissed the battery charge. She had been set for trial Jan. 4.