Paraplegic roughed up by cops gets probation, fine in alcohol case

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The attorney for a paraplegic who accused two city police officers of brutality said his client just wants to put the incident behind him.

Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. of Youngstown Municipal Court sentenced William Daniel, 36, of High Street, to nine months probation and ordered him to pay a $200 fine on a charge of having physical control of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Daniel pleaded no contest and was convicted of the amended charge last month. He was sentenced Friday morning.

Daniel originally was charged with drunken driving, but the prosecution amended the charge. The maximum penalty on the charge was six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Although police found Willie Daniel behind the wheel after an accident, Kenneth Daniel said he, not his paralyzed brother, was driving the sport utility vehicle in the Feb. 27 single-vehicle crash, in which the SUV ran into a fence on Wilson Avenue.

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