{"id":937641,"date":"2026-05-04T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/937641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:27:21","slug":"britney-spears-pleads-guilty-to-reckless-driving-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/937641\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears pleads guilty to reckless driving after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through her plea today, Britney has accepted responsibility for her conduct,&#8221; a statement from her lawyer Michael Goldstein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has taken significant steps to implement positive change which is clearly reflected in the Ventura County District Attorney&#8217;s decision to reduce the charge in this case and dismiss the DUI,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On her behalf, Goldstein agreed to plead guilty to what is referred to as a &#8220;wet reckless&#8221; charge. She will face 12 months probation and is required to complete a DUI (driving under the influence) class, as well as pay fines and fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is standard protocol for defendants with no DUI history, no crash or injury and a low blood-alcohol level, according to the county&#8217;s district attorney&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spears, one of the most successful pop stars in the world, rose to fame as a young child. Her hits such as Baby One More Time, Toxic, Everytime, Gimme More, Womanizer, and Stronger topped charts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For 13 years until 2021, Spears was in a conservatorship \u2013 a legal guardianship under which her finances and personal life were controlled by her father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Through her plea today, Britney has accepted responsibility for her conduct,&#8221; a statement from her lawyer Michael Goldstein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-937641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116517722568658269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}