Diana Ross: jail time for drunken driving
Singer Diana Ross must spend two days in jail after pleading no contest to a 2002 drunken driving charge in Tucson, Ariz.
The pop singer agreed to pay court costs of $852, undergo alcohol counseling and serve her sentence within the next 30 days at a corrections facility somewhere in Los Angeles County, the Arizona Daily Star reported Tuesday.
Ross was arrested Dec. 30, 2002, after police received a report of a car going the wrong way. A breath test showed the 58-year-old singer had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent.
The singer was not in the Tucson courtroom, but spoke to the judge by telephone from New York.
Prosecutors agreed to drop the most severe charges of driving under the influence above a 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content and extreme DUI above 0.15 percent after Ross agreed to change her plea.
No contest means she did not admit or deny charges, but agreed she could be convicted at trial. She would have faced a maximum of six months in jail if she were convicted on the original charges.
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