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Sheldon Killpack Pleads Guilty to DUI

A year after former Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, he pleaded guilty Wednesday to a class B misdemeanor. Paul Parker with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office says he was awarded no special treatment.

(KCPW News) A year after former Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, he pleaded guilty Wednesday to a class B misdemeanor.  Paul Parker with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office says he was awarded no special treatment.

“Mr. Killpack was treated really just as any other first time driving under the influence offender. He was given the same offers.  He was talked about or treated just the same,” says Parker.  “The sentence after he pleaded guilty was the standard first time offender sentence.”

Judge Shauna Graves Robertson sentenced Killpack to 180 days in jail, though that time was suspended. Instead, he’ll be required to perform 48 hours of community service, attend a victim-impact panel, take a DUI offender course, and pay a $1,350 fine.  An additional charge of failure to stay in one lane, a class C misdemeanor, was dropped.

“This was a standard offer. The greatest by far offense was the DUI and he pleaded guilty to that as charged,” Parker said.

Killpack’s attorneys had previously argued that the Utah Highway Patrol didn’t have sufficient cause to pull him over in the first place. The former lawmaker resigned from the Utah Senate shortly after his arrest.


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