Kid Rock Pleads Not Guilty to Battery Charge
Kid Rock faces battery charges after a late-night fight.
Bad boy Kid Rock has pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight at a Waffle House in Atlanta.
The Associated Press reports that musician Kid Rock was not present for the plea. His attorney, Darryl Cohen, waived an arraignment hearing and entered the plea on his behalf in DeKalb County State Court.
Kid Rock and five members of his entourage were arrested October 21 on a misdemeanor charge of simple battery. The charges were from a fight at a a metro-Atlanta Waffle House, where they had stopped, following his performance at The Tabernacle.
According to officials on the scene, the fight broke out after another customer recognized a woman in Kid Rock's party and exchanged words with her, prompting him to exchange words, too.