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A drunken driving charge against the leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester will be dismissed after he agreed to plead guilty to refusing a chemical breath test, his lawyer told NBC 10 on Tuesday.
Worcester Bishop Robert McManus appeared before the Traffic Tribunal in Wakefield on a charge of refusing to submit to a chemical breath test.
McManus lost his driver’s license for six months and was ordered to pay $900 in fines and court costs.
“There was an agreement with our entry of admission of chemical test refusal that the DUI would be dismissed,” said former Rhode Island House Speaker William Murphy, who’s representing the 61-year-old McManus.
Murphy said that because McManus didn’t have a prior record, that the dismissal of the DUI charge is standard for first offenders.
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