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Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland has been sentenced for his DUI incident on November 21st 2007, to 192 hours in prison, which is about 8 days.
Weiland, 40, entered a plea of no contest, the functional equivalent of a guilty plea in California, to a single misdemeanour count of driving under the influence of alcohol - his second DUI conviction in nearly four years.
The plea, stemming from his November 21 arrest following a traffic collision on a ramp to a Los Angeles freeway, was entered by Weiland’s lawyer on his behalf.
Weiland was also placed on four years’ unsupervised probation, ordered to enrol in an 18-month alcohol program and fined roughly $US1600, City Attorney’s Office spokesman Frank Mateljan said.
Weiland last month pleaded innocent to a charge of driving under the influence of drugs. Prosecutors did not make clear why the nature of the offence was changed in the final plea.
Scott actually seems to have larger problems than simple drug and alcohol abuse issues. He has been in rehab in 1999, under a program where you can avoid a jail term in California by spending the sentence in rehab. He didn’t succeed, overdosing on heroin and being sent to jail by a judge trying to “show that this will not be tolerated…[and] to help him make up his mind to stop killing himself.” Scott’s brother Michael died of a drug overdose, and he needs to take care that something similar doesn’t happen to him.
Scott is bi-polar and says he doesn’t take his medication, resulting in manic and depressive episodes.
Scott will probably serve his sentence before the 28th of May, as his newly reformed band Stone Temple Pilots begin touring on May 17th. In is in his best interests to carry on with the tour – Velvet Revolver kicked him out of the band (check out his blog for the rant he goes into about that incident here)because of his erratic behavior, and those $40,000 bail fees aren’t going to pay for themselves.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Scot Weiland is shown looking rough at the All-Star Gala benefiting the AROD Family Foundation on 1/19/08, thanks to Splash News.
Written by Helen
Posted in DUI, Jail, Scott Weiland, Velvet Revolver
7 Responses to “Scott Weiland is going to jail for 8 days”
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He has looked alot rougher before. I hope he gets his shit straight. I really like him
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In every picture I’ve seen of him, it seems he can’t decide between being a yuppie or a rock n’ roll star. Which one is he, does he even know??
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Does it matter?
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Yeah, especially since his jacket doesn’t fit …
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wow I missed that thing about Velvet Revolver. I was wondering why you weren’t referring to him as being in that band. Good luck scott, go back to the menial, overplayed, unoriginal stp.
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this guy really needs to get his act together, and stop playing concerts without shirts on. At some point he must realize that he is incredibly scrawny, and should either go to a gym or wear more shirts.
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eh, he’s really being jailed for his horrible dress sense and TEENSY TINESY SHRINKY HEAD!
At least we don’t have to see him in pictures looking like a pencil-necked geek trying hard to be macho next to Slash, et al. He flippin looks like Bert from Sesame Street. Further, I do not want to see his scrawny midsection any longer.
That is all. Bye-bye now and go back to your grunge thing, scotty boy.
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