Jerry Robinson Given Fine, Probation

Linebacker Jerry Robinson of the Raiders was fined $750 and placed on probation Tuesday after he pleaded no contest to one count of driving under the influence of drugs.

Deputy district attorney Betty Seawell said Robinson, 30, was placed on three years’ probation and ordered into a drug-alcohol treatment program by Torrance Municipal Court Commissioner Andrew Kauffmann.

Kaufmann also agreed to suspend a six-month jail sentence but did restrict Robinson’s driver’s license, Seawell added.

Robinson was arrested in July near his Palos Verdes home. He was charged with two felonies for possession of cocaine and codeine and three misdemeanors for driving under the influence of drugs, being under the influence of an opiate and cocaine and possession of a cocaine pipe.

He was ordered into a drug diversion program for four of those five charges and fined $1,701 in September after admitting that he violated his probation stemming from a 1985 conviction for reckless driving.

Al Albergate, a spokesman for the District Attorney’s office, said that according to the law, Robinson could not be granted diversion for the charge of driving under the influence of drugs, to which he entered his plea Tuesday.