Kiefer Sutherland Sentenced To 48 Days In Jail
Posted December 5, 2007 12:00 pm.
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A judge slapped actor Kiefer Sutherland with a sentence of 48 days in jail after the star of the television hit “24” was charged with drunken driving for the second time in three years.
Sutherland chose to immediately begin serving his sentence. He’ll be holed up at the Glendale city jail in California.
Sutherland pleaded no-contest in October to driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08.
“Kiefer made the decision to surrender to custody immediately,” his lawyer, Blair Berk, said.
He could have waited as late as Feb. 12.
“I’m very disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited recently and I’m deeply sorry for the disappointment and distress this has caused my family, friends and co-workers,” Sutherland said in a statement.
It wasn’t his first run in with the law.
He was already on probation for a 2004 drunken-driving arrest when he was hit with the latest charge.
He pleaded no-contest to that charge and was sentenced in to five years’ probation, 50 hours of community service and ordered to attend an alcohol-treatment program.
He was also convicted of alcohol-related reckless driving in 1993, the city attorney’s office said.
