Wednesday, msrch 2, 1977
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Drunken driving sentence
f proposal passes
stirrer
By Mitxine Kubicck
Current drunken driving laws do not
provide enough control, said Omaha Sen.
Patrick Vcnditte before the Nebraska
Legislature's Judiciary Committee.
The committee heard arguments for and
against the bill (LB223), introduced by
Venditte, at a Monday hearing. The bill,
would require a seven-day jail sentence for
persons convicted of driving while intoxi
cated (DWI) of under the influence of
drugs.
Current laws are "totally ineffective,"
and the bill he introduced "speaks for it
self," Venditte said. It is not aimed at
stopping drinking, but at stopping drunken
driving, he said. k -
Under LB223, a first offense conviction
of DWI would be punishable by a seven-day
jail sentence and six-month suspension of
the driver's license. ,
After discharge from jail, the offender
would be required to attend a prescribed
alcohol or drug abuse education program.
Suspension of license
A second DWI conviction would carry a
penalty of seven days in jail and the
suspension of the offender's driver's license
for one year. If the car driven by the
person when arrested is registered to that
person, the car would be impounded for a
period of two months to a year.
.A third offense or subsequent
convictions are considered felonies and
would be punishable by one to three years
in the penitentiary and a five-year revoca
ation of the driver's license
No probation consideration would be
given to anyone convicted of DWI and
LB223 does not provide for payment of a
fine rather than a jail sentence. Both fines
and probation rather than imprisonment
are included under current drunken driving
laws.
The seven-day jail sentence for a first
offense may seem a bit stiff, he said. How
ever, he said he was willing to work with
Judiciary Committee members on a com
promise for a reasonable jail sentence.
Weekend j&H sentence
Omaha Sen. Neil Simon spoke in favor
of LB 223, but said he thought the seven
day jail sentence for first offenders was too
harsh. He proposed that the Judiciary
Committee consider a 2-day jail sentence
to be served on the weekend so that the
offender would not miss work and be fired
from his job.
waiter Giles, coordinator of alcohol pro
grams in municipal court probation, said he
opposed the bill because it was punitive,
not rehabilitative.
"It (LB223) treats cases of DWI as if
driving was the problem and not drink
ing," he said. Giles said probation and
other programs deal with the problem, not
simply the complaint;
Giles said judgment is lost first when a
person drinks and that "people don't think
of the consequences when they have a .04
blood alcohol level.
"Sen, Venditte and I agree that there is
a problem and that no one wants to share
the highway with a drunk," he said. "The
only difference is that he wants jaO
sentences and I want to stretch the hours
spent in jail out over a year into some kind
of program."
Chief City Prosecutor Norman Lange
mach spoke in opposition to the bill, say
ing that mandatory sentencing removes the
judge's discretion in individual cases. The
educational factor of specific programs is
also absent in mandatory sentencing, he
said.
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Club .seeks meeting spot
The Faculty Club executive board con
sidered several ideas but made no decision
Tuesday on a plan to keep the club to
gether after they leave the Faculty Club
dining room this Spring, said Virginia
Corgan, Faculty Club president.
Club members plan to leave the dining
room by March 18 because they no longer
can afford to operate it. The UNL Central
Planning Committee will decide how the
space will be used.
At its last meeting, the Faculty Club
authorized the executive board to look
into places for the club to meet, Corgan
said. -.'.'
The executive board is not going to use
a hurry-up process" to decide on the
options open to the club, Corgan added.
She said the executive board was under
no pressure from the Central Planning
Committee to move out of the dining
room.
Unless the executive board decides on a
controversial plan for the Faculty Club,
they probably will not ask the entire
membership for approval, Corgan said.
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