Mindy McCready Gets One Year in Jail

Posted by amyclark on 08/17/2008
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9/14/2007 Stephen L. Betts

A Nashville judge sentenced Mindy McCready to one year in county jail for violating her probation earlier this summer via a domestic dispute at her mother's Florida residence. "Your honor, I can honestly tell you this: This has been the longest two months of my life ... not being able able to hold my son ... has been excruciatingly painful," Mindy, who has been in jail since July 26, told Circuit Judge Jeff Bivins. "I could only say I'm sorry. Please give me a chance to make things as right as they can possibly be." In addition to a year behind bars, Mindy was sentenced to two more years of probation and ordered to perform 200 additional hours of community service. Violating probation or failing to complete her community service would result in the troubled singer being sent back to jail, the judge said. She will receive credit for 75 days of jail time already served. Mindy had just over three months remaining on her original probation, stemming from a 2004 guilty plea to fraudulently obtaining OxyContin, when she was busted in the early morning hours of July 21. Police in Fort Myers, Florida, responded to a call placed by her mother, Melody Inge. Inge told the dispatcher that her 31-year-old daughter was intoxicated and causing a ruckus at the family home. When police arrived, they found Inge with a scratch on the side of her face. For more details on the story, visit  E! News Online