14 DAY TRIAL // If you want to party, you have to be ready to pay the price. Singer Justin Bieber will finally be left off the hook in the Miami DUI case that took place earlier this year and also saw him taken to jail for the first time in his life. The favorable sentence will come at a cost, though, and now Justin is getting ready to suffer the consequences.
The Miami Herald reports that the Canadian crooner will have to undergo a 12-hour anger management course in exchange for having the DUI charges dropped. The hearing is going to take place on Wednesday, but it's said that the prosecution and the defense have already reached a deal that is going to cost Justin Bieber dearly.
The singer is expected to plead guilty in court for careless driving and resisting an officer without violence. The original charges were driving under the influence and resisting arrest, but they were later dropped as part of a plea deal with the defendant's attorneys.
This is all part of a plan to make sure that Bieber doesn't go to jail. In return for his plea, the state won't require serve time. Instead, he's going to have to watch videos about real DUI cases that ended in tragedy, as well as take a 12-hour course in anger management.
As part of the deal, the singer will also be forced to pay a court fine and make a $50,000 (€37,410) charitable donation. All in all, nothing short of a slap on the wrist for the singer who has been displaying increasingly erratic behavior since the beginning of the year.
Justin isn't even expected to appear in court on Wednesday, as the deal is going to be made by his lawyers appearing in front of the Miami-Dade County Judge.
So far, Bieber has managed to evade spending time behind bars, although he's been in court several times already this years alone. Last month he was placed on 2-year probation after he admitted to egging a neighbor's house. In that particular case too, he was required to take anger management classes, as well as complete community service time and pay the neighbor for the damages he sustained to his house.
Meanwhile, back in his home country, he's still facing the trial over an assault case from December last year when he allegedly attacked a limo driver. As long as he's got sound legal council, Bieber seems to be able to doge all his legal issues with the greatest of ease.