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Five DWI Convictions Later, A Somerset County Man Is Sent To Jail

Marshall Smit, 56, of Somerset county has been sentence to 18 months in prison after his fifth DWI conviction since 1998.

Marshall Smit, 56, of Somerville has been sentence to 18 months in prison after his fifth DWI conviction since 1998, according to mycentraljersey.com.

Smit attempted to make the plea that he needed to be able to care for his 91-year-old mother, but was still sentence to carry out his prison term, according to mycentraljersey.com.

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