Love admits to reduced charges
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Rock singer Courtney Love on Thursday admitted to reduced charges in two outstanding assault and drug possession cases, bringing to a close a lengthy legal saga. The widow of Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain was sentenced to three years’ probation and anger management counseling after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor assault for attacking a woman at the Los Angeles home of an ex-boyfriend last April. She had originally been charged with a felony assault. In the second case, Love, 40, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of possessing a forged prescription and the drug oxycodone found in her home in October 2003. She was sentenced to 18 months’ probation and ordered to continue with a drug rehabilitation program. She had originally been charged with two felony drug possession counts. Love’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, said after the second hearing that the singer’s legal troubles were ending happily. He said Love had “turned her life around,” that she was “clean and sober,” that she had regained custody of her daughter Frances Bean, and was writing and performing music with her band again. Love, who did not appear in court on Thursday for sentencing in either case, spent most of last year in and out of courts in Los Angeles and New York. In May, she pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to a charge of being under the influence of cocaine and was sentenced to drug rehabilitation. In October, she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for hitting a man on the head with a microphone stand at a New York City nightclub. |