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Pelosi DA defends misdemeanor charges, withholding of police dashcam video in California DUI arrest
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The Napa County, California district attorney who prosecuted Paul Pelosi on drunk driving charges defended her treatment of him in an interview with Fox News Digital.
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"When we evaluated the nature of our survivor's injuries and so forth… in keeping with how we handle every other case, the charging decision was made as a misdemeanor," she told Fox News Digital. "His injuries were there and certainly a result of the crash but not the kind of injuries that we see in a felony case like lacerated livers or disfiguring lacerations or broken bones."
On Tuesday, Pelosi pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and causing injury in connection to drunk driving charges from a May 28 incident. His 2021 Porsche and another driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in the crash, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car near the intersection of California Route 29 and Oakville Cross Road.