Celebrity Justice
Nicole Richie Will Fight DUI Charge

TMZ was in court moments ago when Nicole Richie's lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley announced her client will try and beat the rap. A trial date was set for July 11.

Richie was arrested last December after she was driving the wrong way on an L.A. freeway. Cops say she confessed that she had been smoking pot and had taken Vicodin.

The stakes are high for Richie. She has a prior DUI and if she's convicted this time around she faces a minimum 5 days in the pokey. Worst case scenario for Richie -- one year in the slammer.

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61. Same song, different idiot. It's really getting to be a joke.

Posted at 3:21PM on Jun 19th 2007 by penny

62. What will it take…for one of the young famous to kill someone. Oh, and I forgot…Brandy did, and she wasn’t drunk or on drugs but yet she’s still walking around while the father and his children are still missing his wife/their mother.

Hollywood was not like this in the old days.

Posted at 3:57PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Anonymous

63. Her 2nd DUI and she ADMITTED to smoking pot and taking vicodin. Throw the book at her. If she's actually pregnant, IMNSHO she's even more of a skanky lowlife than I thought. To actually use another life to try to keep yourself out of jail is about as low as you can go.

Posted at 3:20PM on Jun 19th 2007 by pepsipup

64. Here we go again! Another circus event. Hope she doesn't lose the baby!

Posted at 3:19PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Free Paris

65. If nicole wants to stay out of jail she should make a campaign contribution to Sheriff Baca as soon as possible. It sure looks like it helped Paris a lot.

Posted at 3:28PM on Jun 19th 2007 by John D

66. She should go to jail, just like Paris Hilton. I'm sick of these famous rich rids getting away with breaking the law. They set a bad precedent for our children. It's hard to teach your children what's right and wrong when they see some rich kid driving the wrong way on the freeway and then laughing about it the next day on TV.

Posted at 3:47PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Sam Darren

67. We'll see ????????

Posted at 3:31PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Lake MIchigan

68. Whether she was under the influence or not, she was driving the WRONG way down the freakin freeway!! If it were up to me she'd never see the light of day again.

Posted at 2:22AM on Jun 20th 2007 by dogluvver

69. Since when did being pregnant serve as a reason to keep a woman out of jail? (If she is pregnant, that is.) I know of pregnant women who delivered their kid while serving time; from the joint, to the hospital, and back to the joint again, while someone on the outside kept the baby.

Posted at 3:34PM on Jun 19th 2007 by chill

70. Going the wrong way on the highway, on drugs...guilty...end of story.

Posted at 3:35PM on Jun 19th 2007 by ell278

71. Whoa you guys!! You probably don't know all the facts. Was her confession legally obtained and/or will it be submissable in court? Was she given a field sobriety test and how did she perform? (have you seen the tape?) Was she given an urinalysis and how much of the drugs did she have in her system? In California, does a person have to have a certain amount of the drugs to be considered DUI? Were all of the arrest procedures followed properly? DUI trials are hard to win and very complex, and I doubt her attorney would take it to trail unless he thought there was a very good chance of prevailing.

Posted at 3:37PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Zep

72. Richie belongs in jail just as Paris does. She has a prior, she hasn't learned her lesson. This time she was on drugs, so she shouldn't have been driving to begin with....AND the idiot was driving the wrong way on a highway! She could have gotten someone killed...oh, but she wants to try to squirm out of it. I hope she gets thrown in the slammer too! People have to start paying for this idiotic irresponsible behavior....ANYONE who behaves like this should pay for it.

Posted at 3:40PM on Jun 19th 2007 by gel

73. Uh, DUI is not just alcohol related. Vicodin and pot is also "under the influence". She was in the posession of heroin when she got her first DUI. Thank God it was late at night when she got the second DUI. Driving on a Los Angeles freeway the wrong way could cause many deaths. She needs to do time, pregnant or not. There are many pregnant women is prison.

Posted at 3:43PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Debi

74. This little spoiled brat needs to do jail TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A year in the slammer.

Posted at 3:44PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Tik

75. Zep(#77) -- People like you are exactly what is wrong with our justice system.

Posted at 3:44PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Joe Mama

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