The judge of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck‘s air-rage trial discharged the jury Tuesday at London’s Isleworth Crown Court. No date has been set for a retrial.
Judge John Crocker told jurors that the trial could not proceed at this moment, The Associated Press reported.
“I can tell you no more, I’m afraid. It happens sometimes in court. All I can do is thank you for your patience. I am discharging you from bringing in verdicts in this case,” Crocker said.
Buck was on his way to a concert in London in April, when he allegedly drank 15 glasses of red wine, staggered around the plane, got stuck between seats and doused himself in yogurt.
Buck pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting cabin crew, being drunk on an aircraft and damaging property on the transatlantic flight.
British prosecutors said Monday that Buck behaved like a naughty child on board a British Airways flight from Seattle to Heathrow.
Prosecutor Edward Lewis told the court that the 44-year old musician “became the transmogrification of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde” during the 8 ½ hour flight.
He also added that Buck threatened an air steward, squeezing his tie tightly around his neck, mistook a hostess trolley for a CD player and ripped up a “yellow card” warning from the aircraft’s captain.
