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misdemeanour

counts

in

L.A.

parking

lot

crash

SEPTEMBER

22,

2007 I

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Britney Spears

legal

woes mounted Friday as prosecutors charged her with misdemeanour

counts

of

hit and run and driving without a valid license

after

she allegedly smashed

her

car

into another

in

a parking lot

in

August.If convicted,

the

singer could face

up

to six months

in

jailaffi! atJS$l;000line-foreach·count-,saiclNick Velasquez,

spokesman

for

the

·city

attorney's

office.Messages

left

with Spears' lawyers were not immediately returned.The

accident occurred

Aug.

6, Velasquez said.Spears, 25,

was

filmed

by

paparazzi

that

day

steering her car into another vehicle as

she

tried

to turn into a spot

in

a Studio City parking

lot.

After

assessing

the

damage to

her

own

car only, she

was

shown

on

paparazzi video

walking

away.Three days

after

the

accident,

the

owner of

the

other

vehicle,

Kim

Robard-Rifkin, filed a

police report,

and

investigators

later

determined

that

Spears does not have a license, officials

said.Robard-Rifkin, a 59-year-old registered nurse, learned it

was

Spears

who

had hit

her

car

through a video posted

on

the

celebrity website Celeb TV.com.She said she

was

"sort

of

amused and

sort

of shocked"

when

she

learned Spears

was

the

source

of

the

damage, adding

that

she had expectecl to hear from

the

star's

camp.

"I

simply want

my

car fixed,

the

same as I

would

fix somebody's car if I had done that,"

Robard-Rifkin told

the

site

in

August.Spears

was

scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 10, but she

is

not required

to

appear.The case comes days

after

a court commissioner ordered her

to

undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week

in

her child custody dispute with ex-

husband

Kevin

Federline. She must also meet eight hours a week with a parenting coach,

who

will

observe

and

report

back

to

the

court about her parenting skills.Her management firm also

recently dropped her, and her performance

at

this

year's

MTV

Video

Music

Awards

was

widely

panned. Spears'

new

album

is

set

for

release

Nov.

13.

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