Jaime Pressly Pleads No Contest To Drunken Driving, Will Have Locking Device On Her Car
Aug. 26 2011, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
By Adam S. Levy - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer
It was a good news, bad news day for Jaime Pressly Thursday, as she didn't get out of a drunken driving charge unscathed, but won't spend any time in jail either.
The My Name Is Earl star was sentenced to three years of informal probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor DUI count of driving with a blood-alcohol .08 percent or higher in connection with a January 2011 arrest. She entered the plea through her attorney Richard Hutton at the Los Angeles Airport Courthouse.
The 34-year-old North Carolina native will have to complete a six-month alcohol education class, Santa Monica Deputy City Attorney Melanie Skehar said, adding the Department of Motor Vehicles will mandate she has an ignition-