SHORELINE, Wash. – High-profile Seattle attorney Anne Bremner pleaded guilty Wednesday to DUI following an arrest in June.
At her arraignment in King County District Court, Bremner said she had been drinking that night and was on prescription medication for bi-polar disorder.
Bremner was arrested June 4. The King County Sheriff's Office said a deputy saw her driving down the road with a flat tire and pulled her over. He determined that she had been drinking.
When news of the arrest became public last month, Bremner claimed her symptoms were not caused by alcohol, but by a concussion from a hit-and-run accident.
In court Wednesday, she took responsibility for the incident.
"I made a mistake. I was wrong and I apologize," Bremner told the judge. She then proceeded to turn what she called "a very public case" into a lesson for others.
"I want to use this public platform to say that one drink is one drink too many. I will never, ever … you should never say never, but I will never, ever drink and drive," she said.
Bremner went on to say she welcomes spending two more days in jail and having an interlock device placed on her car.
"I want to be treated like anybody else," she said.
Bremner was sentenced to a year in jail, with all but two of those days suspended and will be required to drive with an interlock device on her car for a year. The judge also told Bremner to attend a DUI victim's forum, something Bremner said she would like to do.
Her attorney, Bill Bowman, also said Bremner apologizes to the officers involved in her arrest.
A King County judge ruled last month that documents related to the arrest could be released, but her attorney has appealed the decision.
