The Dentons Partner Facing Charges In Drunk Driving Death Has A History Of Legal Problems

The Biglaw partner was charged with impaired driving on two other occasions.

Yesterday, we told you suspended Dentons Canada corporate partner Shane Stevenson had been charged with impaired driving causing death, driving over the legal limit causing death, and hit and run causing death following a car crash that killed 16-year-old Chloe Wiwchar. Wiwchar was struck while crossing the street at a crosswalk by a pickup truck that fled the scene. An off-duty police officer witnessed the crash and followed the truck. Stevenson was arrested in his truck a short time later.

Now we know this isn’t the Biglaw partner’s first brush with the wrong side of the law.

According to CTV News Edmonton, Stevenson was charged on two separate occasions with impaired driving. The pair of incidents happened in 2009, and  he was never convicted of that charge — in one case, the charges were withdrawn two years later, and in the other, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge:

Stevenson was charged with impaired driving and refusing to provide a breath sample in 2009. Those charges were withdrawn in 2011.

Also in 2009, Stevenson was charged with impaired driving in Stony Plain, but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of careless driving – he paid a $500 fine.

As for the charges Stevenson currently faces, he is out on $50,000 bail. He is expected back in court on May 2nd.


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