Comedian Artie Lange Pleads Guilty To DUI Charges
Artie Lange
Comedian Artie Lange has pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence of a habit-producing drug.
Artie was pulled over in Tom’s River, NJ on July 10. When he was pulled over he had a prescribed sleeping pill in his system when he got behind the wheel.
Lange was fined $664, his drivers license was revoked for seven months and he has to serve a total of 12 hours in an intoxicated driver resource program.
Michael Grasso, Lange’s lawyer, says Artie pleaded guilty because “If we would have taken it to trial the interest of the media would have outweighed the best interests of my client.”
Grasso also said the prosecution planned on calling more than 10 witnesses and he would have had to counter that with a dozen witnesses of his own, so the plea made sense..
