Final defendant in 'bling ring' pleads no contest to receiving jacket stolen from paris hilton Los angeles, calif.The final defendant in a group charged with burglarizing celebrities' homes pleaded no contest friday to receiving a jacket stolen from paris hilton. Courtney leigh ames entered michael kors gansevoort the plea and is expected to be sentenced on feb.1 to three years of supervised probation and 60 days of community service. Prosecutors dropped felony residential burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary charges and another count of receiving stolen property in exchange for the plea. Ames, who had been charged with breaking cheap mk bags into hilton's home, had also been accused of wearing a necklace stolen from lindsay lohan's home to court. All the stars have agreed not to seek restitution for their losses. "From day one, we always knew that courtney was the least culpable player in this group,"Her attorney, robert schwartz, said after the hearing. "In no way am i condoning or minimizing what was done to these various celebrities, but to connect courtney ames with these burglaries was just false. " One of the defendants, alexis neiers, quickly ended her case and starred in the short lived e!Entertainment television reality show"Pretty wild,"Which prominently featured the court case.Lifetime created a television movie inspired by the case and oscar winner sofia coppola has filmed a movie based on the burglaries and their fallout. Coppola's film was aided by the lead investigator on the case, los angeles police office brett goodkin, who failed to disclose his paid work and appearance in the film.That became an issue in recent months and prompted superior court judge larry paul fidler to call goodkin's actions"Stupid"And a gift to defence attorneys, but not egregious enough to warrant an outright dismissal of the charges against ames and two other defendants. Schwartz said he would have attacked goodkin's credibility and his claims that ames had confessed, if the case had gone to trial, although he acknowledged that if ames had been convicted of cheap michael kors bags outlet any charges she likely would have faced stiffer penalties. Had the case against the trio gone to trial, jurors would have heard directly from one of the group's ringleaders, nicholas frank prugo.The 21 year old pleaded no contest in march to burglarizing the homes of lohan and reality star audrina patridge and is scheduled be sentenced to two years in prison in in january. Another accused ringleader, rachel lee, pleaded no contest to burglarizing patridge's home and is serving a four year state prison sentence. A louis vuitton bag full of jewelry was returned to hilton after several members of the group were arrested, but much of the stolen property hasn't been recovered.

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