Huff Receives Suspended Sentence, 24 Months Probation

Councilman Todd Huff was sentenced Tuesday to one year in jail suspended and 24 months supervised probation after pleading guilty two weeks ago to one count of drunken driving.

Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Martin said Huff's probation will be supervised by the Drunk Driving Monitoring program. Huff will also have to remain alcohol free for the term of his probation and submit to random urine tests. An alcohol restriction was also placed on his license for the next 24 months.

Additionally, the sentence carries 12 points on his drivers license and could lead to revocation following an expected administrative appeal by Huff.

Huff, a first-term Republican from Timonium, pleaded guilty on April 18 to one count of driving under the influence following his arrest in Towson on Feb. 23.

Huff failed several field sobriety tests and his blood alcohol level registered nearly three times the legal limit—a fact that Martin brought up more several times during the April 18 hearing.

John Grason Turnbull III, Huff's attorney, had requested probation before judgment—a sentence that could have allowed Huff to avoid points assessed to his drivers license.

But Chris Smith, a Harford County state's attorney special assigned to prosecute the case, argued that a probation before judgement was not appropriate because of a prior incident on the councilman's record. Huff, 18 years ago, was involved in a hit and run incident in which he pleaded guilty and spent four days in jail. The sentence also carried an alcohol restriction on Huff's license.

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