Laviolette pleaded guilty several weeks ago to impaired driving and dangerous driving concerning the incident, which occurred about 12:25 a.m. Nov. 19, 2019 on Municipal Road 80. She drove drunk through a police barricade set up to allow officers to reconstruct a serious, three-vehicle motor vehicle collision involving an impaired driver in Val Caron hours earlier.
Defence lawyer Norm Stanford of Toronto and the Crown suggested the conditional sentence. Laviolette will serve house arrest for the first two months, followed by a curfew with the other two. Justice Serre also issued a one-year licence suspension on the impaired driving charge, and a suspended sentence and 18-month probation order for the dangerous driving charge.
Sudbury officers investigating drunk driving crash almost run over by another drunk driver
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An Ontario Court judge has dismissed impaired charges against a Sudbury driver due to issues with the notes and testimony of two police officers and how they dealt with the accused.
The issues produced a successful challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and breath test results were excluded as evidence in the trial of Dawn Venne, held over several days in February and March of this year.
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But Justice Heather-Ann Mendes did find the 36-year-old woman guilty Monday of two counts of failing to remain at the scene of an accident, fining her a total of $1,000 and issuing a six-month licence suspension.