Amanda Bynes News Update: Actress Convicted on 2012 DUI Case

Amanda Bynes got off fairly easy in her DUI court case stemming from her arrest back in 2012.

Standing in for the 27-year-old actress who was not present in court Monday, attorney Richard Hutton entered a no-contest plea to a "wet reckless," which is a lesser charge than an actual DUI conviction.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward Moreton sentenced her to three years of probation and mandated her to complete a three month alcohol education program, said an L.A. County district attorney's spokeswoman, according to the LA Times.

On April 6, 2012, the former child star was arrested after she crashed her BMW into the back of an L.A. County sheriff's deputy's cruiser in West Hollywood. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. near Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards, reports E! News. She caused minor paint damage to both vehicles and was booked for suspicion of DUI, but released on bail later that day. The actress is also currently on probation in California for driving with a suspended license.

Last year, she was also accused in New York of throwing a glass bong out her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.  

Since then, she has shown great progression in her mental health after she displayed months of bizarre and erratic behavior in 2013. She was finally committed to a psychiatric hospital over the summer. On July 22, she was placed on an involuntary hold after she set fire to a stranger's driveway, around the corner from her parents' home in California. She was rumored to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and her parents were granted full conservatorship over her fortune. 

Bynes received treatment for mental illness at UCLA's medical center before she was transferred to a mental rehabilitation facility in Malibu called The Canyon.