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| Man Gets Jail Time After Showing Up For Probation Drunk |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/27/2002 |
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A New York man who admitted he operated a lawnmower while drunk was sentenced to a year in jail after showing up intoxicated for his court-imposed community service. Michael Kocur's blood alcohol level of .09 was just under the legal limit of .10, but Kocur was not supposed to be consuming alcohol at all as a condition of the probation, said his lawyer Norm Chirco. Kocur, 39, asked Cayuga County Judge Peter E. Corning to help him gain control of his alcohol problem. Corning, after giving Kocur two previous chances to stay out of jail, gave him a yearlong sentence in the county jail. Kocur was first arrested in July 2001 for driving a riding lawnmower while intoxicated. At the time of his arrest, Kocur said he was towing a friend in a wagon and picking up cans and bottles alongside a road. Kocur pleaded guilty to felony DWI and was sentenced in May to spend a year of weekends mowing grass and doing other chores on the county jail inmate weekend work crew. Kocur had to appear in court this month because he twice failed to show up for his weekends of community service. Both times he said he was sick. Corning again gave Kocur a chance to stay out of jail but insisted the work weekends be completed without interruption. That interruption came when Kocur showed up intoxicated. |
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