Tiffany Haddish avoids jail time in DUI case five years after allegedly falling asleep at the wheel in Georgia

Tiffany Haddish has finally put her nearly five-year-old DUI drama in Georgia to rest by pleading guilty.

The 46-year-old comedian pleaded guilty to 'DUI driving less safe' as she appeared in court virtually on Tuesday and she will avoid jail time, as per Fox 5.

She has been sentenced to one-year probation and her driving privileges in the state of Georgia have also been suspended.

As part of her reported plea deal, Haddish must 'complete a DUI course and 40 hours of community service,' as per TMZ.

She is also ordered to stay away from drugs and alcohol and submit to testing.

Haddish must 'periodically' report to probation officials by phone but that requirement may be under review after six months, the outlet reports.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Haddish's representatives for comment but has yet to hear back. 

She was arrested in the early hours of January 14, 2022, in Peachtree City, Georgia after authorities were contacted about a driver on a highway sleeping at the wheel.

The Girls Trip star was pulled over as she stopped in the yard of a home and taken into custody, Peachtree City Police said in a news release at the time.

She was taken to the Fayette County Jail and released after she posted $1,666 bond.

In May of this year, attorneys for Haddish submitted a request to a Georgia court to have her driving under the influence arrest dismissed.

In a court filing reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Haddish's attorneys argued that the star's constitutional right to a speedy trial had been breached with delays in the case, in requesting it be scuttled.

The legal team for the Los Angeles native said that the slow pace of the case had been 'presumptively prejudicial' by Georgia legal statutes.

At the time of the filing, the court has still not entered any orders more than two years after a motion to suppress hearing was conducted May 2, 2024, according to Haddish's legal team 

Prosecutors in Georgia twice last year filed motions to continue the case, in March and then May, lawyers for Haddish said in the filing.

Haddish's lawyers said in their filing they have declared themselves 'ready for trial' on at least 10 occasions, and followed up with the court on 12 occasions to flag the undetermined rulings.

Lawyers representing the star said she had missed out on 'financial compensation' of lost business opportunities due to the case being considered open.

The outstanding case had also complicated Haddish's efforts to gain travel clearances to film in Australia, her attorneys told the court.

'She has had difficulty obtaining the proper travel documents to work in certain countries who see a pending case as a concern; most recently Australia, within the past couple of months,' attorneys for Haddish said in the filing, the paper reported.

They noted that Haddish 'has had to hire costly third-party help to navigate those challenges with her travel.'

Haddish's legal team said that time was a critical element in the case, as memories became less reliable with the passage of time.

Haddish's legal team said the 'she respectfully requests that the court find that this substantial delay without any apparent justification was in violation of her constitutional rights to a speedy trial under the United States and Georgia Constitutions and that the accusation against her be dismissed.'

Haddish was again arrested in connection with driving under the influence less than two years later, the latter coming on November 24, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.

In that incident, police said they found her sleeping in her automobile with the engine running, which was on Beverly Drive at the time. The latter led to a charge of improper stopping on a roadway.

Authorities said they believed Haddish was under the influence of marijuana at the time.

She ultimately took a plea deal in which she admitted to a charge of reckless driving, receiving probation.