Britney Spears avoids hit-and-run trial
LOS ANGELES - Hit and run … then pay as you go. Britney Spears is no longer facing hit-and-run charges since she paid off the other car’s driver in the fender-bender, but she still has to deal with one count of driving without a license, a judge ruled Thursday.
Spears was not required to attend the hearing on the misdemeanor charges stemming from an Aug. 6 parking lot mishap.
Superior Court Judge Susan Speer dismissed the hit-and-run charge after a lawyer for the pop star said his client had paid an undisclosed amount to a woman whose car was hit in a Studio City parking lot.
A charge of driving without a license was not dismissed and a pretrial hearing was scheduled for Nov. 26. Speer accepted a not guilty plea entered on Spears’ behalf by lawyer Michael Flanagan to that charge.
Outside court, Flanagan said Assistant City Attorney Michael Amerian had offered Spears a plea deal involving the license charge that would have resulted in her being placed on probation for a year.
Flanagan said he believed a plea was unnecessary because Spears had rectified the situation by recently getting a California driver’s license.
“She got a license, she has insurance, has always had insurance,” he said. “The question is: Is probation really necessary?”
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