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Jan 25, 2008 2:58 pm US/Pacific
Spears' Driver License Case Continued
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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The owner of the other vehicle later filed a police report and Britney Spears was charged in September with misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving without a valid license.
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Britney Spears' lawyer won more time Friday to work on the pop
star's case in which she is charged with driving without a valid
license.
Attorney Michael Flanagan appeared with prosecutor Michael Amerian
before a judge and said they had been unable to agree on what law
applies. They asked for more time and were given until Feb. 20.
But Superior Court Judge T.K. Herman said that he was not going to
grant any more delays after that, and if the parties could not agree he
would order a trial. "It's this court's intention to force both sides
to go to trial within 30 days of that date," he said.
The case stems from an August incident in which Spears was
videotaped as she bumped another vehicle while parking her
Mercedes-Benz. She left after looking over the damage from the
fender-bender.
The owner of the other vehicle later filed a police report and
Spears was charged in September with misdemeanor hit-and-run and
driving without a valid license. The hit-and-run charges were dismissed
in October after Spears paid an undisclosed sum to the owner.
Flanagan said outside court that Spears was driving with a Louisiana
license that was valid because she owns homes in that state. But he
said that when a person is "domiciled" in California they are required
to get a California license and that Spears did so within a week after
the charges were filed.
"There's no dispute about the facts here," he said. "The dispute is about what the law is that's appropriate to the facts."
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