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Barkley has jail sentence for drunken driving cut to 3 days
1 of 7. Former NBA player and television analyst Charles Barkley speaks to a detention officer on the first day of his jail sentence at Tent City in Phoenix, Arizona March 7, 2009.
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Former NBA All Star Charles Barkley will serve three days in jail instead if 10 after a judge reduced his sentence for drunken driving.
The judge cut Barkley's jail time, which starts on Saturday, in return for the former player's promise to complete an alcohol treatment program, a Scottsdale city spokesman said on Friday.
Barkley, now an outspoken TV basketball analyst, was arrested on December 31 in the Phoenix suburb with a blood alcohol content nearly twice the level allowed under Arizona law.
The 46-year-old Hall of Famer will serve his jail time in a an outdoor facility where inmates live in tents and are forced to wear pink underwear.
(Writing by Larry Fine, Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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