Nancy Pelosi’s husband pleads guilty to drunken driving in California

By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) – The husband of U.S. Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 5 days in jail and ordered to pay $6,800 in fines and restitution on Tuesday after he pleaded responsible to inflicting damage by drunken driving in Napa County, California.

However Paul Pelosi, 82, will keep away from any additional incarceration after the decide gave him 4 days’ credit score for time already served in jail following his arrest and ordered him to carry out eight hours of group service in lieu of the one remaining day, based on his legal professional Amanda Bevins.

Bevins entered the responsible plea on her consumer’s behalf in Napa County Superior Court docket. The defendant selected to not seem for the continuing, as his presence was not required, based on a press launch from the county prosecutor’s workplace.

Paul Pelosi, a enterprise capital government, was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk (DUI) after he was concerned in a two-car crash in California’s wine nation in Could. Police mentioned his Porsche collided with a Jeep when he tried to cross a freeway, although nobody was severely harm.

His spouse, a California Democrat and second in line to succeed the U.S. president as speaker of the Home of Representatives, was in Rhode Island on the time of the incident to ship a graduation tackle at Brown College.

Below an settlement reached with prosecutors to settle the case, Choose Joseph Solga on Tuesday accepted Paul Pelosi’s responsible plea to a single misdemeanor rely of DUI inflicting damage.

The decide dismissed a second cost of driving with a blood-alcohol stage of .08% or greater, the state’s authorized restrict, and inflicting damage. That cost, just like the one Paul Pelosi pleaded responsible to, carries a most penalty of a yr in jail, a spokesman for the county district legal professional’s workplace mentioned.

Though spared any further jail time, Paul Pelosi was positioned on three years probation and forbidden to function a motorcar for a yr except it’s outfitted with a DUI ignition gadget, which prevents the motive force from beginning the automobile with out first offering an on the spot alcohol-free breath pattern.

Paul Pelosi additionally was ordered to pay $4,927 in restitution to the motive force of the opposite automobile for medical payments and misplaced wages, plus the usual restitution payment of $150 and a $1,723 courtroom fantastic, the district legal professional’s (D.A.) workplace mentioned.

Apart from the penalties imposed by the decide, the state Division of Motor Autos might additionally droop Paul Pelosi’s driver’s license for a yr based mostly on his conviction, the D.A.’s workplace mentioned

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Modifying by Josie Kao)