14 DAY TRIAL // Amanda Bynes looks to be on the right path to getting her life back. The former Nickelodeon actress has managed to avoid prosecution in the case involving her bong-throwing incident from last summer.
Bynes cut a deal with the prosecutors in the case to follow counseling for the next six months in return for dropping the case from court. She agreed to attend counseling sessions that would be taking place twice a week.
The deal also includes a clause that requires Bynes to stay out of any trouble for the duration of her counseling. The affidavit signed by Bynes read “I understand that after a period of six months has expired, if I have complied with the conditions set forth below the charges will be dismissed.”
“This is an important step in her rehabilitation. I am optimistic about her future and pleased with the result,” her lawyer Gerald Shargel told the press.
Though not present for the hearing in court, the young actress agreed to the deal. The whole matter was sparked by an incident from May of last year, when Bynes was allegedly smoking weed in a New York apartment building.
The police were called in to investigate, but by the time they arrived, Bynes was no longer in the lobby. It's reported that she threw her drug paraphernalia out the window when officers came knocking on her door on the 36th floor.
She told policemen that it was actually “a vase” but was nonetheless slapped with reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence and marijuana possession. Prosecution in the case was delayed because of her diagnose with mental illness.
She has been since diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but has completed her treatment in December, has returned home to the tutelage of her parents and now has enrolled into college, taking up fashion classes.