Posted on 07/23/2005 12:28:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES - Actor Tom Sizemore was ordered Friday to remain in a live-in drug rehabilitation program until he is sentenced in September for violating his probation on drug charges, his prosecutor said.
Sizemore admitted to a series of violations, including falsifying his urine tests by using a prosthetic device and failing to submit to drug testing on eight occasions, said Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney.
The actor was nearly a no-show in court, arriving several hours late for Friday's hearing. His attorney, Michael Rovell, said Sizemore had been in the rehabilitation facility since July 11 and requested Thursday that the actor be excused from appearing. Superior Court Judge Paula Adele Mabrey denied the request and delayed the hearing so Sizemore could attend.
A different judge issued a warrant for Sizemore's arrest last week after the actor failed to appear in court but agreed to hold the warrant until Friday.
During the hearing, Mabrey told Rovell to keep his client quiet as Sizemore stood and attempted to address the court.
"I think her exact words were 'I don't need to hear from your client right now,'" Carney said after the hearing.
Mabrey ordered the actor not to leave the Pasadena treatment facility until his Sept. 15 sentencing. Sizemore could face up to three years in prison.
The judge also ordered him to submit to weekly drug testing.
"It seems harsh, but it's not," Sizemore said after the hearing.
The actor, who played baseball player Pete Rose in last year's ESPN movie "Hustle" and had roles in films including "Natural Born Killers" and "Saving Private Ryan," previously denied violating the terms of his probation.
He was originally ordered into drug treatment after pleading guilty in October to possession of methamphetamine.
Sizemore separately was convicted in 2003 of domestic violence involving his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. He has been allowed to remain free while appealing.
He was sentenced in March to 17 months in jail and more than four months in drug treatment for repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation in that case.
Actor Tom Sizemore listens during a probation violation hearing Friday, July 22, 2005, at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles. Sizemore was ordered to remain in a live-in drug rehabilitation program until he is sentenced in September for violating his probation on drug charges, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
So we actually apply the law to one of them about once every 3-4 years, and that is to serve as punishment for all the rest of the depravity the Hollywood elites wallow in.
Sorry to hear he's screwed up his life so bad. I've enjoyed his work.
He was great in Blackhawk Down; what a waste of talent.
I also wish him well.
I liked the book and movie, "The Relic," I bought both. 1997: Penelope Ann Miller, and Tom Sizemore. He was pretty good. A creepy monster movie.
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