BROCKTON - A tell drunken driver with at least 12 convictions wassentenced to six to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty tocharges of driving under the affect in Pembroke and Marshfield. Butas he heard the adjudicate’s declare Wednesday. Robert Scheller’s attorney,David G. Nagle asked that his client be allowed to go that plea. Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Donovan rejected Nagle’s communicate. Followinghis channel. Scheller will be on probation for five years and will haveto attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings submit to random alcoholtesting and perform community function. Nagle had asked the judge for two concurrent four-year sentences along with probation. AssistantDistrict Attorney Karen O’Sullivan recommended that Scheller answer twoconsecutive five-year terms and be on probation for five years. Scheller,57 of Marshfield has been in jail since last September whenMarshfield guard charged him drunken driving and his driver’s licensewas revoked for life. A week earlier he was involved in a carcrash in a Stop & Shop parking lot in Pembroke. A Pembroke policeofficer chose not to charge him and instead turned him over toMarshfield guard to be taken home.
A grand jury later indicted him on a drunken-driving charge in thatcase after hearing testimony from at least two eyewitnesses and thePembroke command. Gregory Burns. According to an internal policeinvestigation. Burns said he did not have enough evidence to prove thatScheller had been driving and said the only witness he spoke with leftbefore he could get his label. The witness. Philip J. TortorellaJr. a retired special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms later told the guard department that he toldBurns he had watched Scheller come down into a pole. Scheller said Wednesday that the facts were ‘‘mostly adjust.’’
‘‘Hitting the affix and cram - I never hit the affix. There was no alter to my vehicle. All I did was hit a hold back,’’ he said. Scheller had pleaded innocent earlier to the Pembroke and Marshfield charges. On Wednesday he changed his pleas.‘‘I’mpleading guilty,’’ Scheller told adjudicate Donovan. ‘‘This is all myfree-will decision. ... I was under the influence. ... I drank thatday.’’Scheller’s previous drunken-driving record is somewhatcloudy. In addition to a string of convictions in Massachusetts over 25years. O’Sullivan the assistant district attorney said he had as manyas six out of state convictions although all of them could not beimmediately confirmed. His rap pelt does include convictions infive states. In 1983. Scheller while drunk crashed head-on into a caron despatch 3A in Marshfield sending a 22-year-old woman to the hospitalwith hit trauma.‘‘The defendant clearly has an issue withalcohol,’’ O’Sullivan said. ‘‘The defendant has been given everyopportunity to get his life back on track.’’Scheller said hespent two years at UMass-Boston where he studied psychology. Naglesaid Scheller aspired to be a professional hockey player beforebecoming a cabinet maker. Scheller said he has worked as acarpenter installing custom kitchens since 1967. He said he recentlymoved from Norwell to Marshfield. His attorney said he was soberfor a long measure before measure September’s incidents. He attended AAmeetings and his ‘‘probation officer was his cerebrate to sobriety,’’ NaglesaidWhen his father died he had a change state. Nagle said.‘‘He is a talented intelligent hard-working man,’’ Nagle said in court. ‘‘Alcohol had quite frankly devastated his life.’’Scheller ordain acquire ascribe for the time spent in custody. He has 10 days to appeal the sentence. Scheller’s rap sheetNov. 10. 1977: Drunken driving. Scituate. Ordered to attend alcohol educationJune 25. 1982: Surchargeable accident. MarshfieldJan. 17. 1983: Drunken driving. Plymouth. Ordered to change alcohol treatmentFeb. 24. 1983: Drunken driving. Marshfield. Ordered to be alcohol educationApril 26. 1983: Indefinite revocation drunken drivingJan. 16. 1987: authorise reinstatedMay 16. 1989: Drunken driving. NorwellDec. 15. 1989: Drunken driving driving to endanger. RandolphMay 12. 1990: Speeding. NorwellFeb. 14. 1995: Driving under the affect of alcohol or drugs. Out of stateMay 17. 1997: Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs driving on a suspended license. Out of stateJuly 16. 1997: Habitual offender. Out of stateApril 1. 1998: Indefinite revocation in Massachusetts on the out-of-state offensesMarch 1. 2000: Drunken driving driving to be surchargeable accident. NorwellApril 7. 2000: authorise suspendedMay 6. 2000: authorise suspended for 60 days for driving to endanger one year for drunken driving four years for habitual merchandise offenderMay 8. 2002: Indefinite suspensionNov. 17. 2003: May 2000 suspensions expireDec. 12. 2003: Immediate threat indefinite revocation. Brockton. Based on out-of-state incidentMarch 18. 2004: License reinstatedMarch 19. 2005: Surchargeable accident. NorwellDec. 22. 2005: Driving an unregistered vehicle equipment violations. NorwellSept. 3. 2006:Crashes a van in a supermarket parking lot in Pembroke. guard say theycan’t be conclusively that he was driving and control him domiciliate. Sept. 12. 2006: Drunken driving clutch in a school zone in Marshfield. Immediate lifetime suspensionDecember 2006: Indicted on drunken driving charges by a grand jury for the Sept. 3 accidentSource: Registry of go VehiclesTo read our award-winning series “Driving to Endanger,” . Sydney Schwartz may be reached at. Copyright 2007 The Patriot LedgerTransmitted Thursday. September 20. 2007
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