Sean Penn ordered 300-hour community service for kicking photog
May 13th, 2010 - 2:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 13 (ANI): American actor Sean Penn has been ordered to perform 300 hours of community service after he was filmed kicking a celebrity photographer.
He was filmed kicking the photographer in the leg at a shopping centre in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles last October. The photographer’s camera was also damaged.
Penn was also sentenced to three years of informal probation and ordered to undergo 36 hours of anger management counselling, said city attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan.
The two-time Oscar winner was also charged in February with misdemeanour battery and vandalism for the attack.
Mateljan says the community service can be completed through Penn’s earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti.
Penn was not present at the Los Angeles court and entered a no contest plea through his lawyer, Richard Hirsch.
“Prolonging this matter in the court system would not have been in Mr Penn’s best interests and would have distracted from his charitable commitments, specifically his work in Haiti,” The Telegraph quoted the lawyer as saying.
“Accordingly he has decided to accept the terms and move on,” he added. (ANI)
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