Love Cops to Mike Tossing

Courtney Love's hefty legal docket just got a little less congested.

The sometime singer-actress-deejay pleaded guilty in New York Wednesday to disorderly conduct, stemming from a March incident when she nailed a clubgoer in the head with a microphone stand during a performance at a Manhattan nightclub.

Gregory Burgett, 24, of London, Kentucky, was at the unlucky receiving end of the microphone stand. The bloodied Burgett needed three staples to close the wound in his noggin and was reportedly "insistent" on pressing charges.

After she left the nightclub stage, an unsuspecting Love was arrested on misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault. She pleaded innocent to those charges in May and they were later reduced to disorderly conduct.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson granted Love a conditional discharge, meaning the case will be sealed after one year, as long as Love coughs up the $2,336 to cover Burgett's medical bills, enters a drug-treatment program and does not commit any more crimes.

Should Love fail to meet those conditions, the judge said, the trouble-plagued rocker's case could be restored to the court calendar, and she could face 15 days in jail.

"But what happens if I get arrested and I didn't do it?" Love asked the judge.

Outside the courthouse, Love said she considered her plea "a little un-American" and that she believed New York police were out to get her following her David Letterman taping earlier that evening, during which she flashed the Late Show host.

"I just wanted it to be over," Love told reporters of the case. "I played a rock show. I didn't do anything. I wasn't on drugs. Playing a rock show had nothing to do with drugs."

When asked if she knew or had spoken to Burgett, Love pleaded ignorance.

"I don't know who that was, but he has a medical bill and I'm paying it," she said.

Burgett's not Love's only alleged victim. The erratic rocker also faces trial on charges that she bludgeoned Kristin King, 32, with a variety of objects, including a flashlight and a liquor bottle during an April 25 smackdown.

Love has professed not to know King, who was reportedly inadvertently drawn into a brawl between Love and ex-boyfriend Jim Barber, the owner of the home Love attempted to enter in an unorthodox manner last October. The America's Sweetheart singer has pleaded innocent to the flashlight-bonking charges and remains free on $150,000 bail.

Love's next court appearance is set for Nov. 3, when she's due to stand trial on two felony counts of illegal possession of painkillers. Love has maintained that she is innocent of the charges.

She's also facing several liens filed against her--two by her Manhattan condo board, charging that she owes maintenance fees of approximately $25,000, and one by the state of California for $38,000 in back taxes. She's also been sued by a travel agency that claims she owes some $50,000 in unpaid travel expenses.

Naturally, all that time in court has caused Love to rack up some pretty hefty legal fees and as it turns out, she allegedly hasn't been keeping up with her payments. A court has given the rocker until February to hash out a settlement with her former legal team, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which sued Love for unpaid attorney fees. Should no settlement be reached, the case will be brought to trial.

Meanwhile, Love's been hosting a two-hour radio show every Thursday at 7 p.m. this month on KDLD/KDLE-FM 103.1 in Los Angeles. Fans of the arrest-prone rocker can tune in to hear her spin her favorite records and discuss her legal issues.

Love is also set to headline a string of dates in California with her band, the Chelsea, starting Oct. 24 in San Diego and wrapping up Oct. 30 in a pre-Halloween show, dubbed Devil Doll Ball, at L.A.'s Wiltern Theater.

No matter what happens with her various ongoing court sagas, it looks like Love's going to jail one way or the other.

The rocker informed Rolling Stone that she plans to record a concert inside a women's prison.

"I dodged a bullet," Love said, referring to her near brush with jailtime in July, after pleading guilty to a controlled substance charge, "so I'm going to do the most I can do to make the ladies happy. I think [playing] a women's [prison] would be fun."

Of course, if her numerous legal battles don't go her way, Love might be doing more than playing in a women's prison.