A Madonna-obsessed ex-firefighter will be back on the hook for felony weapons charges if Manhattan prosecutors get their way — and a judge forgives their admitted bad math.
Robert Linhart had been busted in September 2010 after he twice parked outside the singer’s ninth floor, Upper West Side apartment, opened cans of paint and started crafting poster-board professions of love.
He was charged with felony weapons possession — for a gravity knife and an awl — and spent a remarkable two years in Rikers, unable to post bail.
The case had been dismissed last month for prosecutors’ failure to meet speedy trial deadlines. Prosecutors had argued then that they were wrongly penalized for time a key witness had been out of the country on military duty.
In court today, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bonnie Wittner grudgingly agreed to revisit the matter — not based on the military matter, but on assistant district attorney Tatiana Amblin’s admission that she’d made “a dumb mistake” in her own calculations.
“If this was John Q Public and not Madonna, they wouldn’t be pushing so hard, and they wouldn’t have thrown him in Rikers,” Linhart’s lawyer, Kevin Kitson, told The Post angrily after court.
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