Kiefer Sutherland pleads no contest to DUI charge

from LA Times, By Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 10, 2007



Actor Kiefer Sutherland pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor drunk driving charge stemming from his arrest two weeks ago in West Los Angeles.

Sutherland, who plays counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer on the popular Fox TV show "24," was scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 21 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The Los Angeles city attorney's office, as part of a plea deal with Sutherland, recommended that he be sentenced to 48 days in jail. The sentence would reflect 30 days for the misdemeanor charge and 18 days for violating probation on a separate 2004 DUI case. But Sutherland could be sentenced to as much as a year if the judge who took over the case Tuesday, Stuart M. Rice, rejects the plea deal.

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