Diana Ross Convicted of DUI

AP ^ | 2/9/04 | ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN

[apackof2]

TUCSON, Ariz. - Diana Ross was convicted Monday of driving under the influence and ordered to spend two days in jail.

The R&B diva, who telephoned into the city court hearing from New York, pleaded no contest to DUI. Two related charges were dropped.

Tucson Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw found Ross guilty of DUI and sentenced her to serve 48 hours in jail before March 9. She also was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation.

Ross, 59, originally was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or more and extreme DUI with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or more.

Tucson police arrested her Dec. 30, 2002, after a driver called to report a car traveling southbound in the northbound lanes just outside the city's northeast limits.

Breath test results showed Ross had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent. Arizona's legal limit is 0.08.

FOR DICUSSION ONLY

[apackof2]

Gee, I didn't know you could "phone in" your court appearance?

[discostu]

48 hours?! She was driving down the wrong side of the freaking street!

[martin_fierro]

Ross DUI police report

[RichInOC]

Hey, Diana, do you know...

...where you're going to,
Do you like the things that life is showing you,
Where are you going to?

[apackof2]

Nice, looks good on her resume
Lets see Pop Diva and lush!

[Semper Paratus]

"STOP In the Name of (the)Law

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Always nice to check in and see how Whitney Houston's role model is doing.

[Happygal]

Wonder was she singing...

``..I've got the sweetest hangover
I don't wanna get over
Sweetest hangover''

[lilylangtree]

What a slap on the wrist! Disgraceful!

[JustPlainJoe]

Baby, baby...where did my drink go?

[50sDad]

Diana Ross was convicted Monday of driving under the influence and ordered to spend two days in jail.

Isn't jail supposed to be one of the prerequisites to the Blues? She may get a whole CD out of this!

[Steve_Seattle]

You'd think this babe - with all her millions - would be driven around by a chauffer, or at least have enough money to call a cab!

[Hank Rearden]

Isn't she the singer who keeps trying to look like Michael Jackson?

[shaggy eel]

sentenced her to serve 48 hours in jail before March 9.

,,, "she's coming out, she's wants the world to know. Gotta let it show".

[Steve_Seattle]

Ross, 59

Is that all she is? - must have started very young. Most rockers who flourished in the 1964-1966 years are now approaching 65, if they're still alive.

[NCC-1701]

You can if you're a celebrity.

[kellynla]

48 hours incarceration(at your convenience) before March 9 and one year unsupervised probation? Now that's a state I want to get arrested in for DUI!!! And heck, you can "phone your plea in" too!!! I take back every thing I ever said disparagingly about AZ!!! ROFLMAO