[atlantaprog] For all of you Rush fans...

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Thursday, April 21, 2005
Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson at a recent benefit concert press conference. (CP Archive/Aaron Harris)

NAPLES, Fla. -- The lead guitarist for the rock group Rush and his son accepted plea agreements Thursday and will not go to jail for a New Year's Eve 2003 altercation with Collier County sheriff's deputies.
Alex Lifeson, whose real surname is Zivojinovich, and his 34-year-old son, Justin, will serve 12 months probation and pay court costs as part of the agreement.
The charges against them were reduced to misdemeanors from felonies that could have resulted in the men going to prison.
The agreement calls for each to plead to a single misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest without violence. Adjudication is being withheld, meaning there will not be a formal conviction on their records if probation is successfully completed.
"Today closes a difficult and painful period in the lives of my family, my friends and myself," Lifeson said in a statement released Thursday. "But the sun is shining and it feels good."

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