Courtney Love was scheduled to surrender herself on Friday by appearing at a court in Los Angeles, but circumvented a media circus by surrendering at a police station instead.
At her hearing on Friday — at which she did not appear — a judge then decided to revoke her waiver of right to appear for future felony hearings.
Technically, Love was able to surrender herself at any time on the warrant, merely by showing up to any police station in California. She turned herself in at the Wilshire District police station and posted the new bail of $150,000, in a procedure that took less than 10 minutes.
The warrant for Love's arrest stemmed from her failure to appear for her July 9 arraignment in Los Angeles on a charge of felony assault with a deadly weapon, a day in which the singer not only turned 40, but also ended up being hospitalized in New York (see "Courtney Love Hospitalized After Missing Court Date"). She was transferred to an undisclosed facility and was supposed to receive treatment through August 5. But by being at the facility, she subsequently missed court dates for her felony and misdemeanor drug charges, which were scheduled to be held last week.
Prosecutors for the felony case then filed a motion asking that the singer be committed to custody and that her bail status be revoked and reset (see "Courtney Love Deemed 'A Danger To The Community' By L.A. D.A.'s Office").
To be fair, Love had filed a waiver of her right to appear in the felony drug case, and technically wasn't required to appear, but her status in the matter changed on Friday when Judge Elden Fox revoked her waiver. Fox also denied the DA's motion to reset the singer's bail.
Because Love has so many criminal cases going on at the same time that also affect each other, Judge Fox urged the district attorney's office to consolidate her cases, saying it was "illogical" for her to have three different judges in two different courthouses (and that's just counting the California cases). "At this point, there are no plans yet to consolidate," Jane Robison of the district attorney's office said.
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