New Zealand Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis has pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges.<\/p>\n
The actor was charged with reckless driving and driving with excess blood alcohol causing injury after a crash in September.<\/p>\n
Curtis appeared over audio-visual link in the Auckland District court on Thursday.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to both charges.<\/p>\n
Charging documents seen by RNZ had alleged Curtis had 122mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, more than double the legal limit.<\/p>\n
The maximum sentence for the excess blood alcohol charge is five years in prison or a fine of $20,000 alongside a mandatory disqualification from driving for a at least 12 months.<\/p>\n
Driving recklessly carries a maximum sentence of three months imprisonment or a $4500 fine and disqualification for six months or more.<\/p>\n
Curtis’ lawyer Samuel Moore entered the pleas on his behalf.<\/p>\n
He asked for a referral to restorative justice and that the matter be moved to court in Rotorua where Curtis is based.<\/p>\n
Judge Tiffany Cooper granted his requests and remanded Curtis on bail.<\/p>\n
He will reappear before the court next year for sentencing.<\/p>\n
He had released a statement the day earlier apologising for what happened.<\/p>\n
“I made a devastating mistake, and I’ll have to live with the consequences and do what I can to address the harm caused. I am deeply sorry,” he said.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with the injured taxi driver and his family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis has pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges. The actor was charged with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-644979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}