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Mel Gibson Strikes Plea Deal, Won't Go to Jail

He'll admit to simple battery against Oksana Grigorieva

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 9, 2011 3:04 PM CST

(Newser) – Mel Gibson will plead no contest to simple battery against Oksana Grigorieva as part of a plea deal that will keep him out of jail, TMZ reports. The deal averts what would otherwise have been a sensationalistic domestic-abuse trial over the alleged assault on Jan. 6, with the testimony of Oksana's 13-year-old son at the center of the prosecution's case. Gibson is expected to be in court Friday.

"One major reason why this case was being brought against Mel Gibson, more than a year after the alleged incident took place, is because Sasha was made available to testify at a potential criminal trial against Mel," a source tells Radar. Click here for more on the deal, or here for background on all the sordid details.

In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the Edge Of Darkness premiere in Paris.
In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the "Edge Of Darkness" premiere in Paris.   (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)
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COMMENTS
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vendetta
Mar 10, 2011 7:13 AM CST
This is America, we don't send wife beaters to jail; especially if they are celebrities.
SPHeroid
Mar 9, 2011 9:51 PM CST
Money talks......
elimpostor
Mar 9, 2011 8:10 PM CST
As a man, I can certainly understand sexual frustration, a personal sexlife tragedy, but beating his wife in front of a witness/child, that's a broken family trauma, besides an outrageous crime. No matter he's handsome, famous, loaded, he should serve time like a common criminal, though I love his movies. I really look down upon these shmuck plea deals, just fucking business like anything else. I even hate to sell my own 38 books, man. Business sucks. I'm a communist at heart.

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