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Augie Garrido to spend 4 days in Travis County Jail for drunk driving arrest in Austin, Texas.

The University of Texas head baseball coach has been sentenced to four days in jail stemming from an arrest for DWI in Austin. Garrido had entered a guilty plea to driving while intoxicated earlier this year in February.

Garrido was stopped around 1:00 am on January 17th for driving without headlights. After performing a field sobriety test, he admitted to having consumed five glasses of wine and to being intoxicated. He was arrested and booked on charges of driving while intoxicated in Texas. Garrido issued a public apology for the arrest, calling his actions a "serious mistake". He was suspended by the UT athletic department for the first four baseball games of the 2009 season.

Garrido will receive two days credit for time served and Travis County jail officials will decide how the balance of the sentence will be carried out. Garrido was also fined $500 and his driver's license was suspended for 90 days. As an Austin DWI lawyer, some may question the extent of the penalties, especially with an admission of intoxication on the part of the defendant, they are in keeping with a first offense DWI. Coach Garrido received no special favors for his notoriety or stature in the community.

Prosecutors were seeking a five day jail sentence for Garrido but said they "understand and respect" the decision of Travis County Judge Elisabeth Earle.

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Two days before Sahel Kazemi shot and killed former Tennessee Titans quarterback, Steve McNair, police arrested her for DUI. Kazemi was stopped driving a Cadillac Escalade that McNair had given her for her birthday. According to the arrest affidavit, Kazemi had bloodshot eyes and alcohol on her breath. She refused a breath test and told an officer "she was not drunk, she was high." Kazemi was charged with drunk driving. McNair was in the passenger's seat of the Escalade but was not charged with anything. He later got Kazemi out on bail.

Police recently released this video of Kazemi's DUI stop.

Police are speculating that Kazemi was having financial troubles and that she thought McNair was seeing another women. Though the questions surrounding this will never be answered, the rumors will continue to fly.