Shock tactics used as drink driver is sentenced in high school courtroom

MARLENE CHAVEZ stood before a hushed courtroom and publicly acknowledged the consequences of her second drunken-driving offence.

Among the spectators were hundreds of teenagers who hung on her every word.

“I lost a lot of things,” said Chavez, 43. “I left my vehicle in the impound so that I don’t do drinking and driving after that. And I lost my house. I lost my kids to their father so that they can go stay with him because I had nowhere to go.”