D.A. Will Not Charge Orlando Bloom

Posted Oct 26th 2007 2:13PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned that the L.A. County District Attorney will not file charges against actor Orlando Bloom over the accident he was involved in on October 12 that injured his two passengers.

In the D.A.'s Charge Evaluation Worksheet, the D.A. states that they are declining to prosecute the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star because of "insufficient evidence."

According to the document, Bloom "was being pursued by 4 vehicles containing paparazzi and one vehicle containing fans." Bloom "took evasive action resulting in a collision."

As for walking away, they say he "walked approximately 60 feet from the scene in an apparent attempt to avoid paparazzi's continued pursuit." They say "[Bloom] was not D.U.I. but was dazed."

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46. The paps aren't going to be satisfied until they chase someone so badly the star gets killed.........................................................

Oh wait! That already happened!!!!! Circa 1997, Europe, a Princess.......................

Posted at 6:15PM on Oct 26th 2007 by oyeah

47. 33. no dui?! he was drinking bottles at a club just prior to this little crash... wow

Posted at 3:58PM on Oct 26th 2007 by faith

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PROOF... were you there watching him drink, I don't think so

Posted at 6:40PM on Oct 26th 2007 by gizette2002

48. "Insufficient evidence?"

That poor girl's head looks like it's BLEEDING profusely!

If you want to commit crimes and walk, become some sort of celebrity and move to Southern California. Apparently you can have the run of the region ...

Posted at 6:54PM on Oct 26th 2007 by IMO

49. Too bad, TMZ. You more than likely helped cause this accident, and then tried to make it look like Orlando had done something wrong with your silly video showing him walking 60 feet away, which you tried to brand as "hit and run", and I'm sure you offered your video to law enforcement in an effort to get a conviction. Nice try, but it didn't work.

Posted at 8:19PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Tristania

50. 48. "Insufficient evidence?"

That poor girl's head looks like it's BLEEDING profusely!
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Head wounds always bleed like that even minor ones the blood vessels in your head are very close to the skin so the amount of blood means little.

Posted at 8:20PM on Oct 26th 2007 by gizette2002

51. I really don't get why people think this was someone getting off because they are a celeb! I don't care one way or the other about Orlando, but it was quite clear from the evidence that he was not fleeing the scene! The accident (according to witnesses who were there) was caused by paparazzi who continued to hound him when he got out of the car. Walking a block or so away to clear one's head, try to get clear from the photogs and call 911 is not hit and run. Even if he was attempting to run, which he so clearly was not, he didn't. Is there such thing as "hit and think-about-run"? Really. And to those who said he was DUI--you weren't there and the cops who have experience in these things said that although he was dazed from the wreck he wasn't drunk. Good thing none of you were there after my wreck because I couldn't remember what happened or my husbands work number (or even that it was on speed dial on my cell). According to you all I must have been DUI. There seems to be this odd backlash against celebs in the justice system now--everyone assumes they are guilty and thinks that something sneaky is going on every time celebs don't get the book thrown at them! Strange.

Posted at 8:21PM on Oct 26th 2007 by laloo

52. Hmmmm.
I wonder if TMZ will now put up a post with the headlines 'DA Ready to Prosecute Hit and Run Paparazzi', or 'TMZ Photographers Looking at Jail time'?
No?
They were so quick to want "justice" before, shouldn't they continue? Or, could they be....*gasp* ......HYPOCRITS?

Their ploy to shift the blame away from their photogs failed miserably.
I LOVE it!!

Posted at 8:34PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Katie

53. To the ones claiming special treatment, hit and run is when you hit something and then take off and try to hide. I doubt he was going anywhere on foot; and everybody knew who he was, so why would he try to hide? It wasn't his fault.

Try having a pack of wolves follow you until you have an accident, and then let us critique your behavior. Much ado about nothing.

Posted at 8:46PM on Oct 26th 2007 by jmo

54. I'm glad there are so many rational people responding this time. Briefly reiterating the points I agree with: Hit and run does not mean walk 60 feet away, it means run or drive. Head wounds bleed alarmingly regardless of severity. Other news sources said the two women had minor injuries, not broken necks. The cops in LA have seen lots of DUIs and are better trained than you to recognize it. Even if he was drinking from a bottle at the club, do you know what was in the bottle? I read it was a clear liquid, could as easily have been Perrier as vodka. The race card sounds stupid almost every time it's played and on a previous post someone claimed it was only women who got fst. And finally, thanks to the person who pointed out that a movie can have more than one star. Orlando doesn't take over a movie like Johnny does yet but he hasn't been acting as long. After all, he's more than 10 years younger.

Oh well, so much for brevity.

Posted at 8:59PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Boston Belle

55. They call him bat- bat masterson!

Posted at 9:24PM on Oct 26th 2007 by P-Type

56. Another case of special treatment

Posted at 10:33PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Special Treatment

57. I seriously have no life and I cover it up by using dry sentences to put people down. Plus Kobe Bryant touched me in my no no spot

Posted at 10:36PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Boston Belle

58. I wonder what would have happened to his career if he had been charged. I wonder what he would have done if the paparazzi had just let him keep going to wherever he was going. I wonder if he would have gotten into an accident that night with some other parked or moving vehicle if the paparazzi and crazed fans hadn't been chasing him. I wonder if he could have avoided this whole situation by avoiding going to yet another trendy hotspot night club. If you give some celebrities enough rope, they eventually hang themselves. No additional assistance required.

Posted at 10:49PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Andromeda77

59. #57
You are clearly the one with no life if all you can find to do is pretend to be someone else. If my sentences are dry, it's because the subject is as well. If you have objections to grammatical, correctly spelled English then it's no wonder you have no life. If you'd actually gotten an education, you too could have a job which consists of more than "Would you like fries with that?"

FYI The last guy that tried to touch me when I wasn't interested has been singing soprano for several years now. Do you have an ambition to be a castrati?

Posted at 10:51PM on Oct 26th 2007 by Boston Belle

60. You are all stupid as hell. Glad to see someone has brains and they did not file bogus ass charges. Get a grip all you haters.

Posted at 10:56PM on Oct 26th 2007 by mommyof4

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