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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46. free nicole!!!!!!

Posted at 2:50PM on Jun 19th 2007 by christine

47. she could of KILLED a whole of people that night....

another hollywood brat who's only famous cos of her daddys fame and money.
she does NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHING and she is a nothing but a real loser !!!!!!


Posted at 2:50PM on Jun 19th 2007 by girl with the pearl-johannes vermeer

48. Pretty soon, Hollywood will need it's own prison. I say re-open Alcatraz!!

Posted at 2:55PM on Jun 19th 2007 by TOLIETWOODS71

49. NICOLE ISN'T FAMOUS B/C OF HER DADDY. SHE'S FAMOUS B/C OF PARIS. PARIS MADE HER WHO SHE IS. BESIDES, SHE WAS ADOPTED. AND THERE ARE MEDICAL WARDS IN JAIL SO NO MEDICAL EXCUSES FOR HER. SHE THINKS THIS IS ALL A JOKE SO LET HER DO SOME REAL HARD TIME AND SEE IF SHE LAUGHS AFTER THAT.

Posted at 2:59PM on Jun 19th 2007 by aliens

50. Jesus Christ. Throw this bitch under the jail.

Posted at 4:30PM on Jun 19th 2007 by joan

51. I hope she is found guilty and given the maximum possible. What nerve of this skank to cost the taxpayers money for a trial when she is so obviously guilty and admitted so to the police. She is guilty beyond any doubt of criminal conduct IMO!

Posted at 3:04PM on Jun 19th 2007 by NASTY NICOLE

52. What Nicole did is MUCH worse than Paris driving on a suspended license. Then Nicole laughs about it? All the booze and drugs must have killed her last brain cell.

Posted at 3:06PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Punk B*tch

53. I agree with you #13.

I think a lot of young Hollywood needs to understand that they are not above the law. And maybe some time in jail will not only teach them, but would show others that they have to do time when they do a crime just like everybody else.

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

54. With hilton and this one South Park is going to have a lot of fun.

Posted at 3:11PM on Jun 19th 2007 by dan

55. Besides the money, this LOSER will be costing the court precious time. I've heard many judges do not like that! When I see these losers now on any t.v. program, I reach for the remote control immediately and can't change the station fast enough. I hope the advertisers are paying attention.

Posted at 3:10PM on Jun 19th 2007 by NASTY NICOLE

56. She was laughing about her cazse on letterman. Big mistake. Judges know
EVERYTHING that goes on surrounding a case and will not be made a fool of.
Wrong way richie is going to jail.

Posted at 3:10PM on Jun 19th 2007 by stretcharmstrong

57. 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 3:18PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Anonymous

58. Jesus Christ. Throw this bitch under the jail.

Posted at 3:11PM on Jun 19th 2007 by joan

59. Part of me wants her to go to jail...

the other part says - let her off - just so Paris' can be heard screaming across the land...

Posted at 3:12PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Bunnie

60. All I can say is- this biotch best have to go to jail too!! What she did was WAY worse than what Paris did, but I will bet you money that the skanky ho will get out of it!! She needs to make up her mind, on Letterman (after she got through giggling) she said " I am ready to face the consequences of what I have done", but yet she is now saying " not guilty"???? WTF skank!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:13PM on Jun 19th 2007 by Hillster

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