Driving during revocation brings sentence, deportation (York Times)

Driving during revocation brings sentence, deportation

Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:25 AM CST

YORK — Driving under revocation is typically a misdeameanor. But not when the offender was under a 15-year revocation for driving under the influence.

That offense garnered a five-year prison sentence for Miriam Corado-Timmerman this week in York County District Court.

Timmerman, who is currently an inmate at the Nebraska Center for Women, is serving time for a similar charge out of Saline County.

“She will be eligible for parole in July,” said her attorney, York County Public Defender Sam Bethune. “She’s in therapy, is getting her GED, she’s been a model prisoner. She regrets her actions and understands this is about the safety of Nebraskans. I spoke to her immigration attorney and she will be deported after serving her Saline County sentence. She’s putting her time at NCW into good use and seems to be doing well there. We are asking for a concurrent sentence, as there is no useful purpose to doing a consecutive sentence as she will be deported.”

“This was obviously a second offense of driving under revocation in a relatively small amount of time,” said York County Attorney Tim Sieh.

Timmerman said, via an interpretor, that “I recognize I made a mistake by driving and I regret it. I knew I couldn’t do it, but I needed to go to work. I have kids, I pay child support on some and I needed to help my husband pay the bills.”

“I need to make a point to others in a similar situation in terms of driving under revocation, especially on a 15-year revocation,” Judge Alan Gless told Timmerman. “I intend to do that.”

He sentenced her to a term of 20 months to five years in prison, but it will be served concurrently with the current sentence. Her driver’s license was revoked an additional 15 years and she was given credit for two days already served in the York County Jail.