California Refuses to Treat Jessica Sierra  1/10/08

Disgraced former American Idol contestant Jessica Sierra has been refused rehab treatment in California.

The 22-year-old was released from a Florida jail on Wednesday (09Jan08) to fly to a Pasadena recovery centre after a judge on Monday (07Jan08) sentenced her to complete one year at the California clinic to kick her cocaine habit.

But the California Department Of Probation has declined the treatment of Sierra as an "emergency transfer" and Sierra now remains in Florida, reports TMZ.

As a result, Sierra's fate will now be decided in a Tampa, Florida courtroom on Thursday (10Jan08).

Sierra was charged with disorderly intoxication, drug possession, resisting arrest and violating conditions of her parole on earlier felony battery and possession charges after her arrest following a drunken bar brawl in December (07).

A Tampa judge on Monday agreed to give Sierra a break by placing her on three years' probation and sentencing her to one year's treatment at the California rehab clinic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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