Posted on 10/09/2007 10:16:56 PM PDT by yorkie
LOS ANGELES - It's 48 days in the clink for "24" star Kiefer Sutherland.
The Emmy-winning actor who plays all-American hero Jack Bauer on the hit Fox TV series pleaded no contest to a single DUI count on Tuesday in a deal that leaves little room for one of his signature TV escapes.
Sutherland must serve 18 days starting Dec. 21 to pay for the fact that his recent drunk-driving bust violated the probation terms of his 2004 DUI conviction. Cushy house arrest with electronic monitoring is strictly forbidden. He then must serve another 30 days by July, with no Paris Hilton-style reprieve, officials said.
"He has to serve the time ... [There's] no credit for overcrowding," said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for Los Angeles city prosecutor Rocky Delgadillo.
Sutherland, now a twice-convicted drunk driver, was busted last month after making an illegal U-turn in West Hollywood and flunking a breath test at the scene.
"I'm very disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited," Sutherland, 40 said in a statement. "I'm deeply sorry for the disappointment and distress this has caused my family, friends and coworkers on 24 and at 20th Century Fox."
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Bet this is really going to screw up the filming schedule for the next season.
Like our President.
‘24’ actor Kiefer Sutherland gets 48 days in jail...
jack bauer can do the 48 standing on his head...lets see how the lib/dem sutherland will do!!!!
That is the one that confuses me no end. With all of the entourages, posses etc etc, why don't they have a designated driver to squire them from club to club?
I don't get it.
Maybe Paris Hilton can do a conjugal visit now and them.
(Lord, I apologize....)
He won’t really hit rock bottom until he does an appearance on “The View”.
....but would you be able to tell the difference?
<}B^)
Are his 48 days going to be like Paris Hilton? What did she serve, like 5 minutes or something? LOL
Jack Bauer doesn’t serve jail time ... he rests.
Looks like playing the type of individual the Libs detest finally came back to bite him in the ass.
While in jail, will they let him keep his cell phone?
Like father, like son.
Maybe they can't trust anyone not to sell them out to the tabloids in .001 nanoseconds if they are ever in a compromising position.
Hollyweird strikes again.
“I doubt that as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that courts could not dictate attendance at 12 step programs due to the religious nature of those programs.
In what could be a blow to the 12-Step Movement’s stranglehold over substance abuse treatment, an appellate court has ruled that a parolee cannot be ordered into a treatment program that uses the model.”
Is “stranglehold” a word you picked, on your own?
FYI the 12 step groups do NOT ask the courts to send people. They merely sign attendance cards, voluntarily, signifying the person’s attendance, as a courtesy to the court.
The 12 step groups often comment that they do NOT have any legal obligation to sign any attendance cards. Some groups do NOT sign cards, for various reasons.
The 12 step organizations are not money making enterprises, so they don’t want or need a stranglehold on anything.
If you want the court to do something else, plan on an expensive alternative, dreamed up by some professional government employee types, to skirt the “higher power” objection.
AA maintains its “stranglehold” as you call it, by offering an essentially free program, which started in 1935, and has now been translated into 40 languages.
Good luck with the alternative. Sorry it didn’t work out for dead Ricky of Hawaii. All the 12 step alternative wanted to do was help save his life.
Easy there fella, ever hear of cut and paste???? The “offending” paragraphs were taken from the web. Next time I’ll italicize or something, don’t get your knickers in a knot.
“Easy there fella, ever hear of cut and paste???? The offending paragraphs were taken from the web. Next time Ill italicize or something, dont get your knickers in a knot.”
As the lady on SNL said- ‘nevermind’
Ahh yes, Christmas in Jail. That should be nice.
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