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Em's Ex Gets Year in Jail
Thu Jul 1, 1:30 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!
By Josh Grossberg
Eminem (news - web sites)'s ex is going back to the big house.
A judge in Macomb County, Michigan, says he is done giving Kim Mathers second chances and sentenced her to a year behind bars for repeatedly thumbing her nose at the terms of her probation.
However, Circuit Court Judge Edward Servitto stipulated that should Mathers successfully complete a drug-treatment program in jail, she'll only have to serve the minimum--140 days--or a little more than four months.
"Now you want me to [be lenient] again. Can't happen," an unsympathetic Servitto told Mathers in court, per the Macomb Daily. "You have absconded twice from your responsibilities. And that absconding is tantamount to escape. That shows total disregard of your obligations."
The absconding has to do with Mathers skipping out on court-ordered rehab two times in recent months. Her jail term--reportedly twice the normal sentencing guideline of six months--was imposed after she pleaded guilty to violating the terms of her probation.
Mathers already did a stint in Macomb County Jail in March after she was booted from the Dawn Farms in-patient substance-abuse center for allegedly failing to comply with the rules.
After that lapse, Servitto ordered the 29-year-old back to rehab, but she promptly bolted in early April after failing to return from a doctor's appointment. A bench warrant was issued for her arrest and police, acting on an anonymous tip, eventually tracked her down two months later in a hotel in Ann Arbor, where she was living under an assumed name.
Mathers will be issued credit for the four months she's currently serving for that slip-up.
This time around, Servitto included an incentive for the erstwhile Mrs. Slim Shady to clean herself up. He added a provision to her sentence that would free Mathers after she complete her jailhouse drug treatment and allow her to undergo further rehabilitation therapy at the famed Hazelden clinic in Minnesota. Should she prove to be a model patient and complete that program, then Servitto would clear her record.
Mathers was originally put on two years' probation and received a suspended sentence in January after pleading guilty to a drug charge and a moving violation. That stemmed from a routine traffic stop in June 2003 in which she failed to yield to an emergency vehicle and was pulled over by cops, who discovered she was driving with a suspended license. A subsequent search of her Cadillac Escalade turned up cocaine, leading to a possession charge.
In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped additional charges dating from last September accusing Mathers of maintaining a "drug den" in a hotel room in suburban Detroit. Those charges could have resulted in a two-year jail sentence.
After hearing the judge's latest ruling, Mathers reportedly burst into tears and mouthed "I love you" to her mother, who was in the courtroom for support.
Mathers' attorney, Michael Smith, declined to comment on the sentence, except to say his client was in "great spirits."
Calls to prosecutor Don Gillain were not immediately returned.
Last November, Eminem was awarded temporary full custody of the couple's seven-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade, after Mathers went AWOL and missed two separate court dates. He has remained mum on his former wife's legal woes.
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