Actor Cuba Gooding Jr will not face jail for ‘forcibly kissing nightclub worker’

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for his sexual misconduct case (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr has resolved his New York City forcible touching case with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and no jail time after complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement reached in April.

Prosecutor Coleen Balbert said Gooding has stayed out of trouble and completed six months of alcohol and behaviour modification counselling, allowing him to withdraw his misdemeanour plea and plead guilty to a harassment violation.