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Published September 8, 2010 in the Rutland Herald
Police: Woman drove drunk to station
By Susan Smallheer
Staff Writer
SPRINGFIELD – A Springfield woman pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of driving while under the influence, third offense, after she showed up drunk at the Springfield Police Station to file a complaint.
Diane M. McCormick, 34, of Union Street, has two previous DUI convictions, both in Windsor County, the first in October 2001, and the second March 2006, according to court records.
McCormick was arrested after she showed up at the Springfield station at 6:35 a.m. on Aug. 17 to file a complaint against a man, claiming he was violating conditions of his release.
Police Officer Anthony W. Leonard said he didn’t immediately realize that McCormick had been drinking because he had a cold, and as a result, was trying to keep his distance from people. But when Leonard and McCormick got in his cruiser to go to another apartment building in Springfield to interview witnesses, he smelled alcohol on her breath and they returned to the police station.
“Having a cold I had kept my distance from McCormick so as to reduce the chances of spreading my cold,” he wrote in his affidavit.
When Leonard asked McCormick if she had been drinking, she indicated she had, a police affidavit stated.
Court records indicate that McCormick’s first alco-sensor test was 0.085 percent, which was taken about an hour after she first came to the police station, and subsequent tests registered lower counts, with her last test at 0.065 percent, about two hours after she first came to the department.
McCormick was on conditions of release from Brattleboro District Court, stemming from two counts of violating an abuse prevention order. Those conditions were set in July. She was also on conditions of release from a different incident of two counts of violating an abuse prevention order and three counts of violations of conditions of release, also set in July, also in Brattleboro District Court.
McCormick was also ordered not to be charged with a new offense while those cases were still open, court records stated.
Judge Patricia Zimmerman ordered McCormick to abide by conditions or be subject to immediate arrest, and to submit to alcohol testing when requested by any police officer.
If convicted, McCormick faces a potential sentence of five years in prison and at least 400 hours of community service.
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