Britney Spears Gets a Mistrial

Britney Spears is off the hook and won’t be going to jail after her misdemeanor trial for driving without a license was declared a mistrial.

Judge James A. Steele said that “the jury is hopelessly deadlocked, and I declare this a mistrial.”

In a statement her lawyer, Michael Flanagan, said “today’s outcome shows my client did nothing wrong. I consider this a victory. Britney was vindicated in that she took on a system that attempted to make an example of her celebrity.”

Said jury foreman Gary Moy, 45, a communications analyst (and one of two jurors who voted guilty): “We felt deadlocked from the beginning, there were lots of questions about lack of evidence, whether Spears had a Louisiana license or not, what the definition of residency was. We felt we were never given all the facts in the case.” He added, “Some jurors felt their time was wasted.”

Moy also noted that he believed Spears’s celebrity worked in her favor, saying that people have a “natural propensity to identify with celebrities, and I feel some of the jurors inserted their personal feelings” into their decision-making.

You got to love the justice system.

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Britney Spears Gets a Mistrial

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