Shannen Doherty is no stranger to run-ins with the law. In December 1992, the actor was apprehended for battery and cleared without indictment early the following year. Doherty, who’d been in the company of her “Beverly Hills, 90210” co-star Brian Austin Green, was at the Roxbury Club in West Hollywood when a fight with another couple ensued.
In another incident, Doherty was sentenced to probation for two years and had to attend anger-management classes, following a vandalism charge, per United Press International. Moreover, she was offered the options of paying up to $5,000 in fines and penalties or doing an 80-hour community service. The actor had supposedly bashed a car window with a beer bottle during an attempt to strike a man who was inside.
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Still, Doherty’s troubles with the law continued. On December 28, 2000, she was arrested for driving while inebriated. It was a choice she had deep regret for. “Thank God, I did not injure anybody,” Doherty said during a talk, according to People (via ABC News). “There hasn’t been a day gone by that I haven’t wanted to relive that decision to get in my car.” The result was a ten-hour stint in jail and a work release program whose alternative would have been a two-day jail sentence.
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