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Michelle Rodriguez Released From Jail ? Served Time for DUI

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

Actress Michelle Rodriguez has been released from Lynchwood County Jail in California after serving only 18 of 180 sentenced days. Her release was due to overcrowded conditions at the jail, which allows female inmates who have not proven themselves to be violent to serve as little as ten percent of their sentence before release. This is not the first DUI-related jail stay for Lost star Rodriguez, whose well-publicized brush with the law landed her in another California jail in 2006. Rodriguez has also served a probation term after driving with a suspended license and pleading no contest to a DUI in 2003. Rodriguez? release is not uncommon for those sent to jail on repeat-offender DUI charges. California?s jails are notoriously overcrowded, and many have a program that releases non-violent offenders who have served part of their term on good behavior...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).