The State - News from July 15, 1985

Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and sometime political correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine, was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $800 by a San Francisco judge who found him guilty of drunk driving in an accident that injured three people. In addition, Thompson was ordered to pay restitution to those hurt. The judge also handed down a six-month suspended sentence to the 45-year-old author of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” ordered him to attend driver’s school and restricted him to work-related driving for the next six months. Thompson pleaded no contest to the charges against him in a May 16 incident in which his car struck a second vehicle.