Judge removes jail time from DWI defendant’s sentence
NORWICH – Rita Warner, Front Street, Binghamton, who was arrested on driving while intoxicated charges in February of 2006, stood before the county’s judge Monday to proceed with the execution of a sentence that was handed down in 2007.
Since that time, Warner’s case has proceeded through the court system with a jury trial resulting in a guilty verdict. Following her conviction, she faced a sentence of 30 days incarceration and five years probation. Warner appealed, but was denied.
At Monday’s court appearance, following a gathering of evidence in the case, Warner’s 30-day incarceration was waived, but she was order to begin her five-year probation period and pay more than $1,200 in fines and surcharges. She was also ordered to submit a DNA sample within 30 days.
The sentencing period was extended in 2007 in order to allow Warner time to gather evidence that she suffers from a mental illness, according to District Attorney Joseph A. McBride.
Three letters from Warner’s therapists and doctors were presented last week to Chenango County Judge Howard Sullivan. In addition, Warner read a prepared statement.
“Every day I think about how I ruined my own dreams ... I have not driven a car or consumed alcohol since my arrest,” she said.
Warner said she has taken her medication “religiously” for her illness and has enrolled in a Narcotics Anonymous program. “There are no ways to adequately describe the word regret,” she said, adding that her aspirations to earn a doctorate degree and become a coroner are no longer an option.
During the proceedings, McBride said he “takes no pleasure in litigating a felony.”
Upon her arrest in 2006, Warner spent nine days behind bars in the Chenango County Jail. Her probation case will soon be transferred to Broome County. McBride said Chenango County Court will no longer hold jurisdiction.
Since that time, Warner’s case has proceeded through the court system with a jury trial resulting in a guilty verdict. Following her conviction, she faced a sentence of 30 days incarceration and five years probation. Warner appealed, but was denied.
At Monday’s court appearance, following a gathering of evidence in the case, Warner’s 30-day incarceration was waived, but she was order to begin her five-year probation period and pay more than $1,200 in fines and surcharges. She was also ordered to submit a DNA sample within 30 days.
The sentencing period was extended in 2007 in order to allow Warner time to gather evidence that she suffers from a mental illness, according to District Attorney Joseph A. McBride.
Three letters from Warner’s therapists and doctors were presented last week to Chenango County Judge Howard Sullivan. In addition, Warner read a prepared statement.
“Every day I think about how I ruined my own dreams ... I have not driven a car or consumed alcohol since my arrest,” she said.
Warner said she has taken her medication “religiously” for her illness and has enrolled in a Narcotics Anonymous program. “There are no ways to adequately describe the word regret,” she said, adding that her aspirations to earn a doctorate degree and become a coroner are no longer an option.
During the proceedings, McBride said he “takes no pleasure in litigating a felony.”
Upon her arrest in 2006, Warner spent nine days behind bars in the Chenango County Jail. Her probation case will soon be transferred to Broome County. McBride said Chenango County Court will no longer hold jurisdiction.
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