Ex-lawyer sentenced on DWI guilty pleas

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Former lawyer Kevin J. Love said he is an alcoholic and has been one “for years” before being ordered Thursday to spend at least another three months behind bars and to undergo more rigorous inpatient treatment after he’s released.

State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia also warned him that he faces probation for the next five years and prison if he goes back to drinking.

Prosecutor Bethany A. Solek said Love, 44, also had been a cocaine addict for years and kept drinking even after one of his most recent drunken-driving pleas. Love, who resigned from the bar earlier this year, had faced a possible prison term of up to 11 years and fines of up to $15,000 after pleading guilty following drunken-driving arrests in Hamburg on Aug. 2., 2008, and this Sept. 11.


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Former attorney gets six months for two DWIs
By Matt Gryta
News Staff Reporter
November 05, 2009, 12:52 PM

Former lawyer Kevin J. Love said he's an alcoholic and has been one "for years" before being ordered today to spend at least another three months behind bars and to undergo more rigorous in-patient treatment after he's released.

State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia also warned him that he faces court-supervised probation for the next five years and prison if he goes back to drinking.

Prosecutor Bethany A. Solek said Love, 44, also had been a cocaine addict for years and kept drinking even after one of his most recent drunken driving pleas.

Love, who resigned from the bar earlier this year, had faced a possible prison term of up to 11 years and fines of up to $15,000 after pleading guilty following drunken-driving arrests in Hamburg on Aug. 2., 2008, and this past Sept. 11.

The judge ordered Love, who recently completed a 30-day court-approved in-patient treatment program near Syracuse, to also pay $520 in court costs within eight months after he is released from the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden.

Though the judge imposed a six-month jail term, under the state's sentencing provisions he only has to complete four months of that and he will get credit for the 30 days he spent in treatment. The judge also ordered him to get more treatment under the auspices of the city's DWI Court after he's released from prison.


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