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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A French River-area woman who assaulted her boyfriend last July and was not to be driving when she left the scene of a two-vehicle collision in December has been given a suspended sentence, a probation order and a $2,000 fine.
“Your consumption of alcohol has been your initiation into the criminal justice system – that date in July when you assaulted your intimate partner – and your difficulties would have been compounded five months later when you hit another vehicle driving while a prohibited driver due to fines and an earlier conviction,” Ontario Court Justice Louise Serre told Leeann Randell, who was attending Sudbury court via Zoom link.