INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A
former Indianapolis police officer sentenced to 13 years in prison for causing
a fatal crash while driving intoxicated in his police cruiser won't spend extra
time in prison for a second drunken driving conviction.
David Bisard pleaded guilty
to drunken driving in the second case Wednesday in a Marion County court and
received a one-year suspended sentence. Alcohol treatment and monitoring will
be part of his probation after he leaves prison.
In the second case, Bisard
was arrested last April after he crashed his pickup truck.
Bisard was convicted in
November of causing a 2010 vehicle accident that killed one motorcyclist and
severely injured two others.
Defense attorney John
Kautzman says the prosecutor's case was based on Bisard's reputation.