Lucy Lawless guilty, Actress Lucy Lawless pleads guilty to trespassing Lucy Lawless, the actress best known for her role as Xena in "Xena: Warrior Princess," has pleaded guilty to trespassing charges stemming from an incident in which she and six other Greenpeace activists boarded an oil-extraction ship in New Zealand in an attempt to keep it at port .
Shell, the company that owns the ship, has condemned the protest, saying it put people's lives at risk Actress Lucy Lawless has pleaded guilty to trespass after she and other activists protested aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand.
She is due to be sentenced in September and faces a maximum three years in jail. Prosecutors reduced a more serious charge of burglary.
Lawless, 44, a native New Zealander, is best known for her title role in the TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess," and more recently for starring in the Starz cable television series "Spartacus."
In February, she and five other Greenpeace environmental activists spent four days perched atop a 174-foot (53-meter) drilling tower on the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki in a protest against Arctic oil exploration. Eight activists pleaded guilty Thursday at the Auckland District Court.
Shell, the company that owns the ship, has condemned the protest, saying it put people's lives at risk Actress Lucy Lawless has pleaded guilty to trespass after she and other activists protested aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand.
She is due to be sentenced in September and faces a maximum three years in jail. Prosecutors reduced a more serious charge of burglary.
In February, she and five other Greenpeace environmental activists spent four days perched atop a 174-foot (53-meter) drilling tower on the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki in a protest against Arctic oil exploration. Eight activists pleaded guilty Thursday at the Auckland District Court.
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