TABLOID READERS WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO A LUrid trial of Amy Fisher, the New York teenager turned call girl, will have to settle for the Hollywood version of the saga. In a plea bargain, Fisher, 18, admitted her guilt in the May 19 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island housewife. In exchange, Fisher will be sentenced in December to five to 15 years in prison for first-degree assault, a reduced charge with the possibility of work release in three years. Fisher has said that at 16, she became sexually involved with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband Joseph, who is 36.
Marvyn Kornberg, Joseph Buttafuoco's attorney, denounced the plea bargain as "a stone-cold sellout," a deal to allow Fisher to testify against his client on statutory rape charges. Mrs. Buttafuoco, who has supported her husband's claim that he was never involved with Fisher, was likewise furious over the deal. Said she: 'The bullet couldn't kill me, but the judicial system surely will."