W's Stefano Tonchi on Trial for DUI

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Ex-T editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi may have landed the plum job of new editor-in-chief at W magazine, but that doesn't mean the rest of his month is going awesome. Gawker reports that Tonchi stood trial today in Beverly Hills for a DUI arrest last January. "According to the Beverly Hills Police Department, Tonchi refused a breathalyzer test at the scene and was subsequently arrested when he failed a battery of field sobriety tests. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office filed a single misdemeanor DUI charge against Tonchi last February and he was arraigned last March, but the trial was delayed for over a year while the defense filed several motions to suppress evidence, according to the courthouse docket." Stay tuned. [Gawker]