State v. Gregory

WALKER, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty of habitual driving while impaired (DWI) and driving while license revoked (DWLR). He was sentenced to a minimum of 19 months and a maximum of 23 months for his habitual DWI conviction and to 120 days for the DWLR conviction. The trial court suspended defendant’s DWLR sentence on the condition that he be placed on probation for 36 months with intensive probation for 6 months.

The State’s evidence tended to show that in the early morning hours of 20 June 2001, Deputy Sheriff Brian Clifton of the Johnston County Sheriff’s Department was on routine patrol…