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March 28, 2024

David Cassidy admits driving while intoxicated

David Cassidy

Patrick Dodson / The Daily Gazette / AP

Seventies heartthob David Cassidy leaves town court in Schodack, N.Y., on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Cassidy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated in upstate New York.

SCHODACK, N.Y. — Seventies heartthrob David Cassidy has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated in upstate New York.

Cassidy was charged last summer in the town of Schodack (SKOH'-dak), near Albany. The Times Union reports he pleaded guilty Wednesday in exchange for a tentative sentence of a conditional discharge that includes 50 hours of community service in Florida, his home state.

Sentencing was set for Nov. 5 and depends on a pre-sentence report.

In March, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Cassidy to three months in rehab and five years of probation in a drunken-driving case stemming from a January arrest for an illegal turn.

Cassidy role on TV's "The Partridge Family" launched a singing career. He spends time in New York during the summer at Saratoga Race Course, 40 miles north of Schodack.

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