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Stalled Celebrity Justice Day continues on Defamer, with reports that the Big Pussy Trial of the Century has been delayed two weeks:

Vincent Pastore, who played gangster Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on The Sopranos, was told Thursday to wait another two weeks before he officially pleads guilty to trying to assault a former girlfriend last spring.


Pastore's deal calls for him to plead guilty to attempted assault, do 10 days of community service and attend a counseling program for batterers. The delay was caused by disagreement over what kind of batterers' program was appropriate.

Dominic Barbara, the actor's lawyer, said Pastore is already seeing a psychiatrist about anger issues. Barbara wants his client to continue with that therapy, but Gina D'Angelo, Domestic Violence Research Coordinator for the Criminal Courts, needs time to check out the therapy and decide whether to recommend it to the court.

We imagine Sopranos creator/showrunner David Chase can't be happy that the ugly details of the case are now public record not because it casts one of his actors in a negative light, but because it reveals one of his most valuable trade secrets: that the amazingly realistic portrayal of psychotic, violent goombahs on his show is achieved by the casting of actual psychotic, violent goombahs.