University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, who previously pleaded guilty to drunken driving in downtown Austin, was sentenced to four days in the Travis County Jail today and fined $500.
Prosecutors had asked that he serve five days, the defense requested three, but judge Elisabeth Earle placed his punishment at four days, she said.
He can temporarily only use his driver’s license for limited purposes, Earle said.
The sentencing will start in August, but his attorney Roy Minton was not certain of the date.
“We understand and respect her decision,” County Attorney David Escamilla said.
Austin police have said Garrido was driving a Porsche Cayenne west on Sixth Street at about 1 a.m. Jan. 17 when an officer in the department’s DWI enforcement team noticed the car’s headlights were not on.
After a sobriety test, Garrido told the officer he had five glasses of wine and was intoxicated, police have said.
Augie Garrido pleaded guilty to drunken driving in court Feb. 2.
Garrido had issued a public apology, calling his actions a “serious mistake,” and said that he would learn from what happened.
UT officials suspended Garrido for the first four games of the 2009 season.
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