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Man Gets 1-Year Jail Sentence After His 14th DUI Conviction
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Prosecutors said they wanted to charge [Philip John Webster] with a felony. A conviction on such a charge would have made him eligible for a longer sentence in state prison. But despite his numerous arrests, Webster did not qualify for a felony prosecution. Long Beach lawyer Richard Poland, who defended Webster in the latest case, did not deny his client’s drinking problems but disputed officers’ inference that Webster had been driving when found in his car near Newport Avenue and 7th Street. Poland said that because Webster had a suspended license, he hired two women to drive him to a bar, and that they later left him in anger because he was drunk. Another woman then agreed to drive him to an ATM near Newport and 7th, the lawyer said. Source : pqasb.pqarchiver.com |
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