Tuesday, August 28, 2007
San Diego Woman Gets 6 years for DUI Death
San Diego DUI Criminal Defense Attorney news
SAN DIEGO California DUI
A woman was sentenced to six years in California prison for striking a pickup while driving drunk and killing another driver.
Deborah Faye Schofield, 48, pleaded no contest July 30 to gross vehicular manslaughter with intoxication. She had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Schofield cried and hung her head Monday as her 18-year-old son, 21-year-old daughter and father asked Superior Court Judge David Danielsen for leniency. She then apologized to the victim's family before being led away in handcuffs.
"I have to live with what I did the rest of my life," Schofield said. "I accept responsibility."
Joseph Sketcher Raby, 29, died after his pickup was struck the night of Aug. 31, 2006, on state Route 56 in San Diego. According to previous testimony, Schofield was weaving in and out of lanes before she drove off the road. She then swerved back onto the highway and collided with Raby's pickup, causing it to overturn.
San Diego DUI Prosecutors said Schofield's blood-alcohol level was 0.25 percent when tested less than two hours after the collision.
A top San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyer pointed out there may have been problems with the San Diego DUI testing, and that the San Diego DUI arrestee's true blood-alcohol content may have been as low as 0.15 percent.
http://www.msn.com
SAN DIEGO California DUI
A woman was sentenced to six years in California prison for striking a pickup while driving drunk and killing another driver.
Deborah Faye Schofield, 48, pleaded no contest July 30 to gross vehicular manslaughter with intoxication. She had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Schofield cried and hung her head Monday as her 18-year-old son, 21-year-old daughter and father asked Superior Court Judge David Danielsen for leniency. She then apologized to the victim's family before being led away in handcuffs.
"I have to live with what I did the rest of my life," Schofield said. "I accept responsibility."
Joseph Sketcher Raby, 29, died after his pickup was struck the night of Aug. 31, 2006, on state Route 56 in San Diego. According to previous testimony, Schofield was weaving in and out of lanes before she drove off the road. She then swerved back onto the highway and collided with Raby's pickup, causing it to overturn.
San Diego DUI Prosecutors said Schofield's blood-alcohol level was 0.25 percent when tested less than two hours after the collision.
A top San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyer pointed out there may have been problems with the San Diego DUI testing, and that the San Diego DUI arrestee's true blood-alcohol content may have been as low as 0.15 percent.
http://www.msn.com
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