Apparently a 60-day stint in LA County lock up can be quite easy to serve. According to TMZ Michelle Rodriguez's 60-day DUI jail sentence turned into four hours and 27 minutes behind bars -- and her really early was blamed as a byproduct of overcrowding and budget problems in LA's jails.
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Rodriguez also served time in Hawaii earlier this year and was released early there as well. Lucky girl.
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TMZ reports it has learned that a spokesman for the LA city attorney's office said Rodriguez was released after just less than four and a half hours as part of a book and release program typical for non-violent offenders with sentences of less than 90 days.
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the LA County Sheriff's Department, said the early release program was implemented in 2002 "as a last resort" to meet budget cuts that reached $180 million.
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Rodriguez had told the paparazzi last week that she was leaving the country after she was released. "I'm moving to France people don't bother you there. I do what I got to do and then I leave the country and never come back," she told snappers.
But this weekend, TMZ reports she's at least hanging on for a bit longer as she was spotted at the Ultimate Fighting Championships at the Staples Center, alongside Paris Hilton, David Spade and others.
--Lynda Johnson
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