Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence causing injury and driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or higher which causing injury, the Napa District Attorney’s Office said in a news release Monday.
The charges stem from an accident on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi’s 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that night.
Mugshot for Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Napa County Department of Corrections)
Pelosi, 81, reportedly had a blood-alcohol level of 0.082 percent when a sample was taken about two hours after the crash.
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The prosecutor said misdemeanor charges were filed “based on the extent of the injuries sustained by the victim.” It is unclear what those injuries are and the driver of the Jeep has not been arrested.
Pelosi or his attorney will file a motion in court on Wednesday. A defendant in a misdemeanor DUI case does not have to be present in the courtroom for a trial under California law.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi. (Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images))
The district attorney said when charges were filed in June that punishment for misdemeanor DUI causing injury “includes up to five years of probation, a minimum of five days in jail, installation of an ignition interlock device, fines and fees, completion of a court ordered alcohol driver class and other terms as the case may be.”
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A spokesman for Paul Pelosi did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
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