According to TMZ, Nicole Richie will fight her DUI charges!  A trial date was set for July 11.

(( Richie was arrested last December after she was driving the wrong way on an L.A. freeway. Cops say she confessed that she had been smoking pot and had taken Vicodin.

The stakes are high for Richie. She has a prior DUI and if she’s convicted this time around she faces a minimum 5 days in the pokey. Worst case scenario for Richie — one year in the slammer. ))

source: TMZ

Wow, one year in the clink, that’s intense. I hope she gets it off easy.