Pubdate: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 Source: San Luis Obispo County Tribune (CA) Copyright: 1999 The Tribune Contact: P.O. Box 112, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-0112 Fax: 805.781.7905 Website: http://www.thetribunenews.com/ DOWNEY DENIED AGAIN Robert Downey Jr.'s pleas for a lighter sentence and release from a prison drug treatment center were rejected Tuesday. Judge Lawrence A. Mira called the actor manipulative and said he had already given him several chances to rehabilitate himself. Downey, 34, was sentenced in August to three years in prison for violating probation from a 1996 drug conviction. He admitted during a hearing that he had missed scheduled drug tests. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D