Matthew Fox May Enter Alcohol Treatment Program to Avoid Jail Time
To avoid jail time, former "Lost" actor Matthew Fox will enter an alcohol treatment program.
Fox entered a no contest plea via his lawyer during a June 1 court appearance for one count of driving under the influence of intoxicants. An attorney for Fox entered the plea in circuit court in Bend, Ore., according to TMZ.
Court documents indicate that one stipulation of the plea requires that Fox enter and complete a drug and alcohol treatment program and was banned from drinking for a year. Upon completion of the program, the case would likely be dismissed.
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"He has to go to an evaluator for alcohol [abuse] and complete any recommended treatment program," Deputy District Attorney Cliff Lu told People magazine.
This was the second good piece of news that Fox received recently. A few weeks ago a woman who had filed a lawsuit against the actor for assault dropped her suit.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Deena R. Calabrese dismissed the case after the lawyer for Heather Bormann, 29, withdrew her accusation that Fox had hit and kicked her after she denied him entrance on her charter bus.
The judge dismissed the case with prejudice, which means that Bormann is prevented from filing another lawsuit against Fox.
Bormann explained that she withdrew her suit after Fox filed a countersuit for defamation because she could not afford a lengthy legal process.
"I told her Fox's attorneys filed a serious counterclaim," Stark said. "I told her it will be very costly to defend her against their counterclaim. She decided as a single mother with three children that she couldn't afford it," her lawyer, J. Norman Stark, said.
The disputed incident occurred in August 2011, when Bormann accused Fox of hitting her in the breast and groin after she denied him entry on a chartered party bus because he was too intoxicated.
