{"id":810759,"date":"2026-08-12T03:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:42:17","slug":"tiffany-haddish-avoids-more-jail-time-by-pleading-guilty-to-drunken-driving-charge-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810759\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Haddish avoids more jail time by pleading guilty to drunken driving charge in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. \u2014 Actor and comedian Tiffany Haddish avoided additional jail time Tuesday when she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor alcohol-related driving charge that stemmed from her 2022 arrest in Georgia<\/a> after someone called 911 about a driver asleep at the wheel at a traffic light.<\/p>\n

Other charges were dropped. After entering the plea by video, Haddish was placed on 12 months\u2019 probation and told to avoid drugs and alcohol and complete a substance abuse evaluation. She was credited for the brief time she spent in jail following her arrest.<\/p>\n

Haddish\u2019s films include the comedy \u201cGirls Trip,\u201d \u201cNight School,\u201d \u201cLike a Boss\u201d and \u201cThe Kitchen.\u201d She wrote the New York Times bestseller \u201cThe Last Black Unicorn,\u201d which earned a Grammy nomination for a subsequent audiobook she narrated. In 2018, she won an Emmy for her appearance on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and a Grammy in 2021 for her special \u201cBlack Mitzvah.\u201d<\/p>\n

At around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 14, 2022, someone called 911 to report seeing a person who appeared to be asleep in the driver\u2019s seat of a white Ford Explorer with their foot on the brake in Peachtree City, about 30 miles south of Atlanta, according to a court filing. An officer spotted an SUV that matched the description given by the caller and stopped Haddish as she pulled into a neighborhood, according to a police report.<\/p>\n

Haddish\u2019s lawyers in May asked a judge to dismiss the case, arguing that waiting more than four years for the case to be resolved had caused personal and professional difficulties and violated her right to a speedy trial. Fayette County State Court Judge Jason Thompson rejected her arguments.<\/p>\n

The judge found that Haddish and her attorneys had requested some of the delays, including a request for a delay so she could attend a fashion show in Morocco and a request to leave a hearing early to catch a flight. He wrote that she also did not show any evidence of having missed specific performing opportunities or of actual financial harm because of the delay.<\/p>\n

Haddish also was arrested in November 2023 in Beverly Hills<\/a>, California, on suspicion of driving under the influence after police received a call and said Haddish appeared to be slumped over the wheel of a vehicle while the engine was still running.<\/p>\n

Haddish reached a plea deal with prosecutors in that case in February 2024, pleading no contest to a vehicle code violation, and the two misdemeanor DUI charges against her were dropped, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. \u2014 Actor and comedian Tiffany Haddish avoided additional jail time Tuesday when she pleaded guilty to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-810759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}