seattletimes:In King County District Court in Redmond, Lewis also agreed to a suspended sentence of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. The jail sentence and all but $350 of the fine will be dropped if he commits no further criminal violations in the next two years.
During this probationary period, Lewis must attend a drunken-driving victims panel, perform 24 hours of community service and not drive after drinking alcohol.
Lewis was pulled over at 2:50 a.m. last Oct. 1 on Mercer Island for speeding. A field sobriety test by a Washington State Trooper indicated Lewis had trouble standing and appeared to have "bloodshot and watery" eyes.
A Breathalyzer test administered an hour after his arrest also showed Lewis' blood-alcohol level at 0.132. The legal limit in Washington is 0.08. But a judge in December threw out the Breathalyzer test results, citing a constitutional dispute still before the state Supreme Court.
"We felt we were going to have some difficulties in pursuing a [drunken-driving] prosecution without the Breathalyzer test results," said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. "But the sentence imposed is similar to a sentence imposed for drunk driving."
