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Haley Joel Osment Cops a Plea in DUI Case

Posted Oct 19th 2006 2:53PM by TMZ Staff

Haley Joel OsmentTMZ has learned that actor Haley Joel Osment has pled no contest to two misdemeanor charges stemming from a horrifying late car crash in July. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Osment plead no contest to one count of driving under the influence of alcohol and one count of possession of marijuana.

Osment was sentenced to three years probation, 60 hours of alcohol rehab, six months of AA meetings (with a minimum of 26 meetings within that span of time) and was fined $1500 in penalties.

Osment, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "The Sixth Sense" at age 11, lost control of his 1995 Saturn on his way home and collided with a brick pillar in a suburb of Los Angeles around 1 a.m. on July 20. No bystanders were injured in the wreck, but Osment wasn't so lucky: the actor was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a broken rib and an injury to his shoulder.

The collision caused the vehicle to flip over onto its roof and come to rest a short distance from the initial impact. The actor was reportedly alert and talkative following the accident, and was alone at the time of the crash.

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1. What a joke. Anybody else in the real world would have got jail time. All law enforcement treat Hollywood stars like babies. They need to go to jail just like regular people.

Posted at 5:30PM on Oct 19th 2006 by tattoo

2. just a slap on the wrist,1500.00 is chump change to him,did he smoke the weed with Paris? shes loves to smoke weed,to bad she couldnt smoke Ice

Posted at 3:19PM on Oct 19th 2006 by no hope in dope

3. paris probably does smoke ice. i still can't believe he was driving a 1995 saturn. i i think all those girls do along with a line of cocaine...

Posted at 3:42PM on Oct 19th 2006 by tink

4. I dont know if $1500 is chump change to him when he drives a 1995 Saturn! Maybe he is like Screech and his mom and dad took all his money.

Posted at 3:44PM on Oct 19th 2006 by ArcticKat

5. Why was Haley Joel Osment driving a 1995 anything?

Posted at 5:53PM on Oct 19th 2006 by cdm

6. XD Paris does smoke pot. Most likely with her cronies. This is a ridiculous case. How old is he? Freaking pretty boy.....

Posted at 3:48PM on Oct 19th 2006 by Mystery person

7. This kid is only 18, where is TMZ's mention of underage drinking?

Posted at 3:51PM on Oct 19th 2006 by ArcticKat

8. he most likely was driving an old non descript car as to not be noticed.

Posted at 3:56PM on Oct 19th 2006 by I C Druggies

9. # 6 How many other celebrities do that? Since when do flashy cars serve as a dead giveaway in LA for identifying a celebrity? Maybe you should visit LA.

Just get your windows tinted. Problem solved.

Posted at 4:04PM on Oct 19th 2006 by ArcticKat

10. If I'm not mistaken, it was a 1995 Saturn STATIONWAGON. Maybe he has a thing for soccer moms!

Posted at 5:55PM on Oct 19th 2006 by Richard

11. When are these a**holes (o) going to pay for what they do? They can break the law and all they get is slaps on the wrist, and measly fines, preferential treatment. That's why they never learn. Cops and judges are helping these morons get worse and worse, because, they know they won't be held accountable. If people were treated equally, this would be a better place.

Posted at 6:32PM on Oct 19th 2006 by Oh, no you didn't

12. Haleys Mom wants him to be a normal teen,thus the 1995 saturn. He is just doing what kids do, get in trouble.
I mean it's not like he's Parasite Hilton who whores around and gets her thugs to beat people up. He made a mistake and now he's paying for it. You don't see his parents buying off the judges .....again like Paris!

Posted at 7:48PM on Oct 19th 2006 by Di

13. When I was a teenager, I would have rather been castrated than drive a Saturn, although one could argue that both results are fairly similar. Given, the new Sky is one Saturn I would drive, but since it's been borrowed from GM's European partners, it doesn't quite count.

Posted at 8:08PM on Oct 19th 2006 by ntgxtreme

14. um

wow

Posted at 8:22PM on Oct 19th 2006 by cyranotut

15. "8. What a joke. Anybody else in the real world would have got jail time. All law enforcement treat Hollywood stars like babies. They need to go to jail just like regular people."

Since when do people get jailtime for a first offense DUI or simple posession? He was probably arrested over night like anyone would be. He didn't get any special treatment, his 3 year probation sentence was probably the result of a plea bargain from his lawyer to avoid a DUI on his record. Maybe you should learn at least a little bit about the law before you go assuming that people in "the real world" do jailtime for first offense misdemeanors.

Posted at 11:20PM on Oct 24th 2006 by Mat

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