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Thursday, April 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansar
Student to spend two days in jail for spring auto accident
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
A 22-year-old KU student who injured three students in an accident in May will serve only two days of a six-month prison for involvement (for a car white intoxication).
Eldon B. Alldritt, Wichita junior,
pleaded guilty Monday in Douglas
County District Court to a charge
of conspiracy to commit an assault
under the influence of alcohol.
e under the number of booms.
Aldritt originally had been charged in Lawrence municipal court with one count each of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving after an accident.
In that accident, John Buzbee Hutchinson senior, had both his legs crushed between two parked cars when one of the cars was struck by a car driven by Aldritt. The accident occurred on Stewart Avenue.
Buzbee's left leg later was amputated below the knee.
Also injured in the accident were Brian Pyle, Hutchinson sophomore, and Kjersti Moen, Lier, Norway, senior.
Alldritt on Monday received the maximum sentence for the charge, 180 days in the Douglas County Jail. All the days that were二 susped. After serving those two days, begin to receive a fine of $50,000 unsupervised probation for one year.
Alldritt also was fined $200 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service work by October 25
Under Monday's sentence, Alldrift's driver's license will be suspended for 21 days, after which he will be restricted to driving to and
from work and school and in medical emergencies.
City prosecutor Jerry Little said that Aldrid pleaded guilty to having a 0.10 or lower blood-alcohol level within two hours of the accident. The penalty for that charge is the same as for OUI.
Little said that police tests, administered about 90 minutes after the accident, indicated that Aldritt's blood alcohol level was 0.12. In Kansas, a driver with a blood alcohol level exceeding 0.10 is considered legally intoxicated.
Alldritt's lawyer argued that the alcohol test administered by the police was inaccurate.
Little said yesterday, "This case was not handled any differently than any other case.
"He got more than the maximum sentence for the charge, because the 100 hours of community service is not in compliance with the maximum sentence for first time offender."
Alldritt entered a plea of no contest to the two original charges November 6 in Lawrence municipal court. A judge found him guilty on both
charges.
On Dec. 17, he was sentenced to a total of 210 days in jail and was ordered to pay fines of $1,220. He also was ordered to attend, complete and submit his driver's license originally and his driver's license was revoked for one year.
However, on December 18, Aldriti appealed the conviction to the dis trict court and was released from jail on $1,000 bond.
The case had been continued four times since it was filed in Douglas County District Court on December 18.