Haley Joel Osment - Actor Gets Probation to Drunk Driving and Drug Possession
Los Angeles - July, 2006
Haley Joel Osment has pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor drunken driving and drug possession charges from that accident in July when he crashed his car into a mailbox.
Superior Court Judge John Doyle sentenced Osment to three years probation as well as ordered him to serve 60 hours in an alcohol rehabilitation and education program and attend at least 26 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings over a six-month period and pay $1,500.00 in fines.
The actor's attorney, David Wood, entered the no contest pleas on his client's behalf to one count each of misdemeanor driving under the influence and misdemeanor marijuana possession. Two other charges -- another misdemeanor DUI and a vehicle code infraction -- were dropped by prosecutors.
Messages left for Wood and Osment's publicist were not immediately returned Thursday.
Osment fractured a rib and injured his shoulder when he crashed and flipped his 1995 Saturn in La Canada Flintridge on July 20. No one else was in the car, which hit a mailbox mounted on a brick base.
Authorities said the actor's blood-alcohol level was measured after the accident at .16 percent, twice the legal limit.
The 18-year-old Osment, starred as the boy who saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense."
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