Pueblo assistant district attorney Karl Tameler has pleaded guilty to driving while ability-impaired and was sentenced to 24 hours of community service and ordered to pay $635 in fines and costs.
Tameler pleaded guilty Tuesday. He was also ordered to undergo an alcohol evaluation within 60 days. The judge waived a potential two-day jail sentence.
Tameler, 42, was arrested in September, 2005, while attending a prosecutors meeting in Aspen. Police said at the time Tameler was driving 53 mph in a 25-mph zone at about 2 a.m.
His boss, Pueblo County District Attorney Bill Thiebaut, said Tameler was disciplined after an internal investigation. He did not say what the discipline involved.
“He’s a very competent trial lawyer and I think he’s learned a lot from this and so has our staff and so has our community,” Thiebaut told the Aspen Daily News in today’s editions.
