Pleading innocent to two misdemeanor counts of drunken driving in her September 6 arrest in Los Angeles, the 25-year-old Simple Life star's defense counsel Shawn Chapman Holley told the Los Angeles Superior Court that Hilton was looking to pick up a burger from an In-N-Out restaurant when she was apprehended by the police.
Hilton, however, was not present at the court arraignment, where Judge Michael Sauer decided on January 23 as the date for the pretrial hearing. If the trial comes up with a guilty verdict, Hilton could be handed a US$1,000 fine and a six months' incarceration, which might be reduced due to this being her first such offence.
She might also be made to undergo alcohol counseling.
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Though Hilton asserted that she had downed only one margarita and wasn't drunk, she was taken into custody and charged with two misdemeanors. She was released soon after amid assertions that she was speeding because she was trying to get herself a burger after spending the day hungry while shooting a music video and then attending a fundraiser. Her publicist Elliot Mintz blamed the Breathalyzer result on the margarita being taken on an empty stomach.
Hilton's test registered a little over the 0.08 that is the legal limit for California.
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