Under the plea deal, the 25-year-old actress will receive one year of unsupervised probation and forfeit the $500 bond she put up after she was arrested for trespassing in October.
- March 25, 2017
AceShowbiz -
Shailene Woodley has reached a plea deal following her peaceful North Dakota Access pipeline protest activities last year. According to legal documents obtained by ET, Woodley has reached a deal with prosecutors and is agreeing to plead guilty to one count of disorderly conduct.
Under the plea deal, the "Snowden" actress will receive one year of unsupervised probation, the previous riot charge will be dropped and she will forfeit the $500 bond she put up after she was arrested. The plea deal reportedly finds Woodley admitting that, while protesting, she acted with "intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person or in reckless disregard of the fact that the other person was harassed, annoyed or alarmed" by her activities.
Woodley was arrested for trespassing in October as she and many other protesters peacefully demonstrated against the proposed pipeline in North Dakota. She was broadcasting the protest on Facebook Live before cops approached her, so the arrest was captured and broadcast in real time. She was released from jail after spending one night behind bars.
Days after the incident, the 25-year-old actress penned a powerful essay on Time magazine to explain "the truth of [her] arrest." She returned to North Dakota on Thanksgiving Day to join other protesters to continue calling for a stop to Dakota Access pipeline which is being built on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sacred grounds.
