The Latest: Jill Stein pleads guilty in pipeline protest
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on the resolution of the pipeline protest case against former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. (all times local):
3 p.m.
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief in North Dakota for protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline last year.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Judge Gail Hagerty on Wednesday accepted Stein's guilty plea. The judge dismissed a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge as part of Stein's deal with prosecutors.
Stein will be on unsupervised probation for about six months and must pay $250 in fees. She had faced a maximum punishment of two months in jail and $3,000 in fines.
Attorneys and Stein didn't respond to requests for comment.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Stein told The Associated Press in March that it was "very problematic to have this hanging over my head" and that she wanted the case resolved.
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11:05 a.m.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Court records show former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors to resolve criminal charges filed against her in North Dakota nearly a year ago for protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Stein faces misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass and criminal mischief for spray-painting a bulldozer at a construction site last September. The maximum punishment is two months in jail and $3,000 in fines.
Records show the state filed the proposed plea deal with the court, but the document itself hasn't been released. A judge still must sign off. Attorneys and Stein didn't respond to requests for comment on details of the agreement.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Stein told The Associated Press in March that it was "very problematic to have this hanging over my head" and that she wanted the case resolved.