SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack was charged Tuesday with DUI.
When he was arrested Jan. 15, Killpack had a blood-alcohol level of .11, the charges state. The legal limit for impairment is .08.
Killpack, 41, a Syracuse Republican who resigned from the Legislature the day after his arrest, was also charged with failure to signal, a class C misdemeanor, in addition to the class B misdemeanor DUI charge.
Killpack was pulled over by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper in Millcreek near 700 East and 3300 South. The trooper who stopped Killpack had observed a vehicle "with a poor driving pattern," according to UHP Sgt. Jeff Nigbur.
The trooper "detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from the defendant's breath, his speech was slurred, the defendant's balance was poor, and his eyes were bloodshot, glossy and droopy," the charges state.
Killpack "performed poorly" during field sobriety tests administered after he was stopped, and "swayed from side to side during the test," losing his balance twice, the charges state.
The CRIMINAL charges were filed in Salt Lake County Municipal Justice Court, and the case has been assigned to Municipal Judge Shauna Graves-Robertson.
