The captain of the Manu Samoa sevens team has been discharged without conviction.
Samoa captain Alatasi Tupou was sent home from a tournament after being arrested Photo: Mike Lee - KLC fotos for World Rugby
Alatasi Tupou appeared in court in Apia today, after earlier pleading guilty to drunk driving and driving without a licence.
His lawyers argued that a conviction would harm his international rugby career, and that he had already faced intense public scrutiny in the wake of the charges.
The district court judge, Alalatoa Rosella Papalii, accepted the argument, although she still ordered him to pay $US270 in court costs.
