<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Former NBA player Dee Brown pleaded guilty to impaired driving, ending a case in which an appeals court ruled his arrest by Toronto police was due to racial profiling. The plea, entered Wednesday by Brown's lawyer, brought a $440 fine. Brown did not attend the court session. Brown was with the Toronto Raptors when the arrest occurred in 1999. He was convicted of drunken driving in July 2000, but the conviction was later thrown out and a new trial was ordered. The prosecution appealed. In its ruling issued in April, the Ontario Court of Appeals said Brown's arrest was unconstitutional because he was singled out as a black man who was casually dressed and driving an expensive vehicle. </div>
