Movie director agrees to DUII sentencing
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Gus Van Sant, who was arrested on drunken driving charges in December, has agreed to an alcohol diversion program, his attorney said Friday.
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A continuance has been granted in Nicole Richie's driving under the influence case.
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A black assistant director fired from the set of the Universal Pictures film "2 Fast 2 Furious" has settled his racial discrimination suit with the studio for an unspecified sum.
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William Lerach, a lawyer who won billions of dollars for shareholders suing corporations, will plead guilty to criminal conspiracy and go to prison for his involvement in a kickbacks scheme at his former law firm, Milberg Weiss LLP, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 20--You drank, you drove, you did a night in jail. Now you need a lawyer.
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A JAPANESE court has sentenced a self-employed man to a one year suspended jail term for allowing free downloads of two popular Hollywood films through a popular file-sharing software program.
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A former chief judge caught driving with a blood-alcohol level at twice the legal limit pleaded guilty Thursday to DWI and cocaine possession. He was sentenced to a year of probation.
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A man found guilty of causing the death of an 18-year-old by dangerous driving after drinking is jailed.
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A California man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution as a result of a federal piracy case, software company Autodesk said Friday.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat, jailed for killing his actress lover in Lithuania, may be allowed to serve the rest of his sentence in France.
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Tracy Morgan pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.
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Gary Collins checked into jail Monday to serve a four-day sentence in his drunken driving case. The 69-year-old TV personality and actor chose to pay an $85 daily fee to stay in the Glendale City Jail instead of the overcrowded Los Angeles County jail, according to the Glendale Police Department.
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Movie and TV directors tentatively agreed to a new contract with production companies, sending a message to striking screenwriters.
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Two men found guilty of stabbing a City lawyer to death are due to be sentenced.
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A West Covina man twice convicted of drunken driving, and who said he had 15 drinks before killing four people in an alcohol-related traffic collision Nov. 30, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years to life in prison.
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A man who crashed his car through a McDonald's restaurant at about 100 mph, killing three workers, pleaded guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide and agreed to serve 10 years in prison.
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Actor Kiefer Sutherland was  released on Monday from a Southern California jail, where he  served 48 days for drunken driving and violating probation.