{"id":410063,"date":"2026-06-05T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=410063"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:11:25","slug":"britney-spears-pleads-guilty-to-lesser-charge-in-dui-case-and-avoids-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-to-lesser-charge-in-dui-case-and-avoids-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears pleads guilty to lesser charge in DUI case and avoids jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Britney Spears, seen here in 2019, pleaded guilty on Monday to a lesser charge in her DUI case, a move that will help her avoid jail time.\u00a0
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Britney Spears\u00a0pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors\u00a0accused her of driving under the influence\u00a0of alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 44-year-old pop star didn\u2019t appear in Ventura County court. But on her behalf, her lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein, agreed to plead to what\u2019s commonly called a \u201cwet reckless.\u201d That allows her to be sentenced to a year of probation, a required DUI class and state-mandated fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plea offer was standard for defendants with no DUI history, no crash or injury on the road, and a low blood-alcohol level, the county district attorney\u2019s office said. And it\u2019s especially common for defendants who have shown motivation to address their problems and seek treatment, as Spears did when she voluntarily checked in to a substance abuse treatment center in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Monday\u2019s hearing, Spears received summary probation, which is informal and doesn\u2019t involve mandatory meetings with a parole officer. She temporary yielded her Fourth Amendment search and seizure rights if she is pulled over, meaning she must automatically yield to searches and sobriety tests. At her lawyer\u2019s request, the judge ruled this would not apply to her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said after the hearing that Spears had taken \u201cfull responsibility,\u201d but he emphasized that DUI is a \u201cserious crime\u201d and said it was essential that she follow the requirements agreed to in court, which include continued substance abuse treatment, weekly visits with a therapist and monthly visits with a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do not want Miss Spears to reoffend,\u201d Nasarenko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was\u00a0charged\u00a0Thursday with one misdemeanor DUI count, which meant she was not required to appear in court for her arraignment. But her representatives hadn\u2019t said whether she would appear, and the hearing drew an unusually heavy media turnout for Ventura, a seaside city of about 110,000 people roughly 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of downtown LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singer has a home in Ventura County near where she was arrested on March 4. A representative at the time called her actions inexcusable and said the arrest would ideally lead to overdue change in her life. Spears and her representatives have not commented since she was charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was pulled over for driving her black BMW quickly and erratically on U.S. 101, the California Highway Patrol said. She appeared to be impaired, took a series of field sobriety tests, was arrested and was taken to jail, the CHP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities said in the criminal complaint that Spears had alcohol and drugs in her system, but they didn\u2019t specify which drugs or list her blood alcohol content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Britney Spears\u00a0pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors\u00a0accused her of driving under the influence\u00a0of alcohol and drugs. The 44-year-old pop star didn\u2019t appear in Ventura County court. But on her behalf, her lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein, agreed to plead to what\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whmx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410064,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410063\/revisions\/410064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}