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Ross Gets Served While Serving

...and dadgumit, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, at least not according to my mail.

On Friday, KOLD reported that Ross had done time for her Tucson DUI bust in a jail cell in her hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Note that was days after she entered a no-contest plea by phone from home. We also picked up on a story from the New York Daily News (and repeated by E! Online) that Ross got some perks, including bringing her own comforter and sending officers out for food. "Celebrity Justice" went even further, saying Ross even kept her cell phone.

Still, I get letters like this one:

I read your story on Diana Ross that you printed. First I want to say that she has served her time and that should be sufficent. It was one of Tuscon's judges that handed down the sentence and she abided by the verdict. I think she has gone through enough recently in her life with her ex-husband dieing (sic) and going through treatment. I wish you would accept the verdict and let it go. I am a Diana Ross fan and hopes she never performs in the Tuscon (sic) area again due to the backlash from your community. Thanks for listening to me.
Gene N.
Okc

First, just to clarify, Ross still has a year of unsupervised probabtion, plus 36 hours of alcohol abuse treatment. So she hasn't quite "served her time," so to speak. Second, what backlash? Most of the backlash, if any, is coming from MADD. I'm simply shaking my head and wondering about this nutty statement from Greenwich Police saying she was treated like any other woman inmate. And a lot of us are wishing we had her lawyer.

And Gene, face this ugly fact: people who can pay for a spirited defense can usually beat a DUI rap, or at least get it knocked down to something less than hard time. Lucky for all of us, Miss Ross didn't kill somebody that night in December 2002 when she was driving toe-up drunk on Tucson's northeast side. And fortunately, she did some time for the crime.