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Does Anyone Care About This Britney Spears Trial?

So Britney Spears is going to trial. It’s because of that stupid incident two summers ago where she hit a parked car in a lot swarming with paparazzi and everyone realized that she was still driving on a Louisiana license even though she was a California resident. Britney refused to plead guilty and the case is going to trial, and they’re currently in jury selection and having a great deal of trouble with that process.

Britney’s lawyers are like “Dude, the state is only making a big deal out of this because she’s a celebrity,” and I have to agree with them there. I got pulled over in California with an Arizona drivers license a full year after having moved to LA. The cop was like “Did you know you needed to have a California drivers license” and I played dumb and was like “No! I thought as long as it was from a state in the U.S. I was okay!” and he was like, “Um, no. You need a California license. You should do that asap,” and that was the end of the discussion. No fine, no ticket (well, not for that part, at least). So I agree that it’s total bullshit that Brit-Brit actually has to go to court for this stuff.

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  • surely the state of california has more important things to worry about than what state she has her license from…

  • totes, especially when she’s doing so well. i hope she just gets it over with fast and can be like, “yup, i’m back on top of the world, bitches!”

  • Evidently Britney was driving without a valid license and left the scene of an accident, so unless she is contesting these facts, why doesn’t she just plead guilty and pay the fine? I don’t have anything against Britney, and in fact know next to nothing about her, but why is she wasting the taxpayers money with an unnecessary trial? Puzzled.

  • Jury selection for an out of state license trial, wow, this is just unfair for her.

    Yea i dont care one bit about this, I just care that shes #1 and I cant wait for the tour!!!!!!!!!!!

  • WAAAAAAAIT a minute. there’s going to be a f*cking jury? FOR TRAFFIC COURT? i have never heard of anything so retarded in my life.

    I actually really do think they are doing this because she is a celebrity. California usually doesn’t care that much about car stuff. I got pulled over with like no proof of insurance on me and my car hadn’t been registered for like 3 years. Oops. All they did was give me a fix-it ticket (OH! which, in the end, they didn’t even make me pay for. SERIOUSLY).

    and I know PLENTY of people who move here and don’t get California licenses for a very long time, years even. what’s the big f*cking deal? I know Louisiana is lame and all, but it’s still a state.

    seriously. I didn’t even know that you legally had to change your state ID when you moved. I just did it out of convenience (because I wanted to claim residency here).

    poor little brit brit. don’t let the man get u down!

  • call me vain, but only thing i care about in the pic is Brit’s rockin’ VUITTON. Sign me up for that…i’ll start saving my pennies now!

  • When I moved from AZ to CA and got pulled over a sweet two years later, I got grilled, and cited for driving without a valid driver’s lisence. Lame.

  • I’m not from the US and I was just wondering, why do you need to change your license if you move states? Do the road rules change from state to state or is it an address thing?

  • Do you guys know if Hefner threw this chick out of the mansion for that sex tape? Does anyone even know who Karissa Shannon is? I know that she has some kind of living arrangement in the Playboy mansion, but other than that, I’ve never heard of her. Is anyone even remotely surprised that a girl who gets naked for a living has a sex tape? How many of you would make a sex tape if the money was right? Think about it. 1 Million? 2 Million? 5 million? How much would it take? I don’t want anyone seeing my boobies, and I’m a really conservative girl, but damn, in the end, money does talk right?