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Nicole Richie serves 82 minutes in jail
(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-24 21:21
In this photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department,
Nicole Richie is seen in a booking mug shot taken, Aug. 23, 2007. [AP]
Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of
a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.
The reality show star, who checked into a women's jail at 3:15 pm, was
released at 4:37 pm "based on her sentence and federal guidelines," Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said without elaborating.
Under a US federal court mandate to manage jail overcrowding, arrestees
sentenced to 30 days or less for a nonviolent offense are usually
released within 12 hours, the sheriff's department said in a statement.
Under the guidelines, Richie was "treated in the same manner as other
inmates with a similar sentence," the statement said.
Richie, 25, was originally sentenced to 96 hours in jail, but that was
reduced to 90 hours because of time served when she was arrested.
Richie arrived at jail with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley and her
boyfriend, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden. Her time at the Century
Regional Detention Facility was spent getting booked, including taking a
mugshot and submitting her fingerprints, Holley said.
She didn't reach her jail cell.
"She was really treated like any other inmate," Holley said. "I think
every inmate in her position, with that type of charge, would have been
treated as she was."
Just hours before Richie did her time, Lindsay Lohan was charged with
seven misdemeanor drunken-driving and cocaine charges for two arrests in
the last four months. Attorney Blair Berk arranged a plea bargain and
Lohan was sentenced to one day in jail, 10 days of community service and
must complete a drug treatment program. She was also fined and placed on
36 months probation.
Richie served her 82 minutes at the county jail in suburban Lynwood, the
same place her "The Simple Life" co-star Paris Hilton was housed for
nearly three weeks after she was convicted of driving on a suspended
license while on probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
Richie was arrested on Dec. 11, 2006, after witnesses reported seeing her
black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle headed the wrong way on a
freeway in Burbank. The California Highway Patrol said they found her
parked in the car pool lane.
Richie pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor DUI charge in a deal with
prosecutors that helped her avoid a potential year in jail because it was
a second driving-under-the-influence conviction.
Her first conviction was in 2003 for driving under the influence of
alcohol.
Richie, the daughter of Lionel Richie, told authorities after being
arrested in December that she had smoked marijuana and taken the
prescription painkiller Vicodin, a CHP officer said at the time. No drugs
were found on her or in her car.
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