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A Plea Deal, a Rehab Stint, and the Same Old Questions Britney Spears resolved her DUI case yesterday. Whether anything has actually changed is a harder question. Monday morning brought a quiet legal resolution to a story that has been anything but quiet. Britney Spears pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge of wet reckless — a lesser form of reckless driving — stemming from her March 4th arrest in Ventura County, California . She will not serve jail time . She will, however, spend the next twelve months on probation, complete a mandated DUI class, and operate under a strict condition: no possession of drugs without a valid prescription. For anyone who has followed the last decade of her life, that last clause carries a particular weight. The night of the arrest, the California Highway Patrol pulled her over on US-101 near her Westlake Village home after dispatch audio indicated her black BMW was swerving between lanes. She was taken to a hospital for a blood draw, t...