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Singer Mindy McCready, who is no stranger to the courtroom, recently petitioned a Tennessee judge to withdraw her guilty plea in a probation violation case citing new evidence.

The country singer had pleaded guilty to violating her probation on a drug charge by driving on a suspended license and leaving Tennessee. McCready, 30, was scheduled to find out Tuesday if a judge would send her to jail for violating her probation on a suspended three-year sentence for fraudulently obtaining the prescription painkillers Oxycontin.

But her attorney, Lee Dryer, said the singer’s relatives in Florida found a document that showed her license was reinstated the day before she was arrested on the driving charge in May 2005. Dryer said the new evidence was given to him late Monday night. (source)

I’ve watched enough Law & Order in my day to qualify me to practice law in about 15 states (mostly southern and Maine!) so I can tell you that a judge will unequivocally deny her petition, because a plea can not be withdrawn once entered into court records. There is no precedent for it, so a judge will have no other recourse but to quash her petition and keep her guilty plea. I’m pretty sure I’m right because I used words like precedent, unequivocally, and quash. Lawyers rule! Here are some images of Mindy McCready before she was caged heat.