A Beverly Hills judge ruled today that Courtney Love must stand trial on two felony drug possession charges despite claims by her lawyers that she had prescriptions for the painkillers police found in her bedroom last October.
Superior Court Judge Elden Fox found "reasonable and probable" cause to bind the 39-year-old singer over for trial after hearing testimony from a police officer called to Love's Beverly Hills home on October 2nd for a "medical emergency."
Beverly Hills police officer Douglas Trerise testified that he arrived at Love's home at 5:30 a.m. and was called to her bedroom, where she "gave (him) a plastic baggie with pills ... from the foot of the bed."
An analysis showed that the pills were the prescription painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, officer Trerise said.
Love, the widow of the late Kurt Cobain, was taken to a hospital after police discovered the drugs.
Hours earlier, she had been arrested outside a boyfriend's Los Angeles home on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs and of breaking windows.
Love, who headed the now-defunct rock band Hole, was charged with a misdemeanor in that incident and faces a separate trial tomorrow in Los Angeles.
Love's legal and personal troubles have multiplied in recent months - in addition to the two California criminal cases, she faces assault charges in New York stemming from an altercation in a nightclub last month.
The singer recently lost custody of her 11-year-old daughter with Cobain, Frances Bean, and told Blendermagazine this week that she was broke.