Lamar Odom plans to enter a no contest plea in his Las Vegas DUI case a day before his bench trial was set to begin. Kevin Coburn said the arrangement would keep Odom from being convicted of DUI if the terms are carried out, but it still had not been formally entered.
Kevin Coburn on the plea
Coburn said the case would be put on pause and the charge would be reduced to reckless driving if Odom completes the required steps. He called the arrangement “not a done deal,” a reminder that the reported resolution still depended on the courtroom process moving the way the defense described.
Odom is 46 and is not expected to appear in court to make the plea himself. That detail matters because the public version of this case has already moved past the arrest phase and into a negotiated outcome that could change the legal label on the January DUI case without a trial.
January arrest in Las Vegas
Odom was arrested in January on DUI and speeding charges after police said he drove more than 110 mph on Interstate 15 south of Russell Road. Police also said he failed multiple sobriety tests while smelling of marijuana, leaving the case tied to both alleged speed and impairment.
The reported plea lands after a previous DUI arrest in 2013 and after his relationship with Khloe Kardashian ended in 2013. Odom later entered rehab following the January arrest, and Coburn previously said he has successfully completed rehab. Those facts do not decide the court outcome, but they frame why the plea drew attention beyond a routine misdemeanor filing.
Las Vegas Justice Court terms
The plea was announced a day before the bench trial was set to begin in Las Vegas Justice Court, which gives the defense a chance to avoid testing the case at trial if the terms hold. Prosecutors did not immediately accept the terms on the record, so the practical question is whether the plea gets filed in the form Coburn described.
For Odom, the immediate stakes are narrow but concrete: a no contest plea could keep the case from ending as a DUI conviction and could move it toward reckless driving if the stated requirements are completed. If the court accepts that path, the January arrest stops being a trial case and becomes a negotiated resolution instead.
