SHELL LAKE– “You are a danger to the public, Robin, when you drink,” Barron County Circuit Judge J. Michael Bitney told Robin Johnson during the defendant’s sentencing for his sixth operating while intoxicated (OWI) conviction.
As District Attorney Aaron Marcoux described Johnson during the hearing, he is a productive person when sober, but when he “falls of the rails,” he falls hard.
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