Kimber Lee Accepts Plea Deal In DUI Case Ahead of Trial

Kimber Lee has avoided trial in her DUI case, accepting a plea deal. As previously reported, Lee was set to go on trial starting next week on the case stemming from the 2023 DUI incident. PWInsider reports that Lee agreed to a Nolo Contendre plea in a pre-trial hearing on Thursday, meaning that she accepts conviction as though a guilty plea had been entered but does not admit guilt. The plea was in regard to charges of DUI, Resisting an Office with Violence and Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer.

Lee was sentenced to one year of probation/community control on the charge of DUI as well as two years’ probation/community control on the other charges. The charges will be served concurrently (at the same time). Community control is a non-incarceration option that, per Legal-Eagles.com), “allows an offender to live at home while traveling to a pre-determined list of destinations, which typically includes work, school, treatment, and community service. Anything not on the list of allowed venues requires the defendant’s Community Control officer’s approval.”

Lee was also sentenced to sentenced to two years in State Prison minus time served on the charges of Resisting an Office with Violence and Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer. However, that sentence is suspended upon completion of probation. She was also sentenced to 75 hours of community service and must wear an ankle monitor. Her driver’s license has suspended for six months and she must undergo substance abuse treatment as well as take DUI classes. It was noted that she has “one chance to complete treatment.”

Lee was arrested after, according to a police report, an officer saw her in her car facing the wrong direction stopped on a roadway. The officer made a traffic stop and the car began moving, nearly colliding with the guardrail and then stopping in a parking lot of a shopping center. Lee was driving and allegedly slurring her words, with the officer noting that she kept “forgetting why [she had been stopped] and asked me several times when (sic) I was messing with her.” She allegedly tried to leave leave the area multiple times to retrieve her laundry from a laundromat and when the officer tried to place her in handcuffs, she struck him in the chest to stop him which led to her being arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer. Lee continued to resist and, per the report, kicked the officer in their chest and face, busting their lip.”

Lee had a blood alcohol level of 0.14; the legal limit in Florida is a 0.08. When asked to give a second sample, she allegedly failed to comply and failed to “give a sample on purpose.” She entered a not guilty plea to all charges on July 7th, 2023.