A YOUNG prosecutor sobbed in the dock yesterday when she was banned from driving for three years after crashing her car into oncoming traffic while drunk.
Janine Bates, 30, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court, where she frequently worked as a prosecutor, after spending the night in the cells.
She pleaded guilty to the drink-driving charge and one of careless driving which caused injury.
The court was told that the "highly regarded" fiscal's career was in tatters after her drunken car smash shame.
A passenger in the car she collided with suffered a dislocated little finger and received treatment at the city's Ninewells hospital.
Bates, of Dundee, was suspended from her post at the Crown Office yesterday and could lose her job.
In January, another Tayside fiscal, Anne Hart, 39, was banned from driving for 18 months and fined £400 after smashing into a parked car while drunk at the wheel.
Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/10/22/highly-regarded-prosecutor-s-career-in-tatters-as-she-is-hit-with-car-ban-following-drink-drive-smash-86908-22650952/
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