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March 13, 2019Osceola, Iowa |  By: AP

Former Iowa attorney pleads guilty to drunk driving

A former southern Iowa county attorney has pleaded guilty
to drunken driving.

Clarke County court records say 43-year-old Michelle Rivera of Osceola 
entered the plea last week after making a deal with prosecutors. She'd been
arrested Dec. 14.

Her plea agreement calls for 365 days in jail with all but two days suspended,
a $1,250 fine and two years of probation. Prosecutors would drop another charge
in return. The agreement isn't binding on the judge. Her sentencing is scheduled
for March 22.

Rivera lost her re-election bid in November after she was arrested in October
on suspicion of being drunk on the job in a Clarke County courtroom. A sheriff's
deputy said in a criminal complaint that he noticed Rivera "slurring her words
and stumbling on her feet" in the Osceola courtroom. She was charged with
public intoxication.

Rivera eventually pleaded guilty and was fined $65.