GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The drunk driver who crashed into an Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer working a roadside incident was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail.
29-year-old Kalin McGuire pleaded no contest to injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle for the July 22 incident which injured Officer Brian Murphy, who spent a month in the hospital.
She was also placed on probation for two years by Brown County Judge Thomas Walsh. Three other counts were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
According to the criminal complaint, McGuire and her husband were coming home from a wedding reception, with their one-year-old son in the back seat.
The complaint says at that time, McGuire’s blood alcohol level was above the legal limit, at .125.
At the time of the incident, there were numerous emergency vehicles on the highway with their lights on, assisting at a car fire along the highway.
In court Tuesday, McGuire addressed the court:
“I chose to drink and drive and because of that choice Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officer Brian Murphy, a man who has dedicated his life to protect and serve, was injured. Because of my decision to drink and drive, he was left unable to do his job, a job so important and so meaningful that the thought of the lives he could have saved and all the people he could have protected but was unable to because of something I did, pains me.”
Officer Murphy also spoke in court.
While he says it was one of the worst experiences he and his family have ever gone through, he is happy to be alive.
