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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Gustaf Kilander

US soccer star Hope Solo pleads guilty to DWI

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Former soccer star Hope Solo has pleaded guilty to driving while impaired nearly four months after she was discovered passed out behind the wheel of a car in North Carolina, with her two-year-old twins in the vehicle.

The former US national team goalkeeper entered the plea on Monday and also faced charges of misdemeanour child abuse and resisting a public officer in relation to the 31 March incident. Solo’s lawyer Chris Clifton noted in an Associated Press report that those wo charges were dismissed voluntarily.

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