Arkansas DWI Offender Freed by Huckabee Pleads Guilty to New Charge

Then-Governor Mike Huckabee paroled man jailed for DWI in Arkansas.

Earlier this week Eugene Fields plead guilty in Fort Smith District Court to drunk driving in Arkansas. Fields was the center of controversy after a 2003 Arkansas DWI sentence was commuted by then-Governor, and current Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee.

Fields was sentenced to six years in jail in 2003 after being found guilty of a fourth-offense DWI in Arkansas. He began the clemency application process and was waiting for a parole date when Gov. Huckabee commuted his sentence, making Fields immediately eligible for release. Citing jail overcrowding, the long-time Republican Party donor was freed despite having served only one year of his sentence.

A director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving stated that Fields is “a menace among us”, adding that she opposed Mike Huckabee’s clemency action in 2004. Fields was also charged with drunk driving and refusal to submit to a breath-test in April 2006. He plead guilty in that case and was fined and ordered to pay court costs.

Fields, from Van Buren, Arkansas, was charged with DWI again on February 1, 2008 after Fort Smith police spotted him weaving in and out of his lane. Fields admitted to having consumed four beers at a nightclub. With the guilty plea to his most recent drinking and driving offense, Fields was sentenced to 14 days in the Sebastian County Detention Center and he faces a parole revocation hearing.

The guilty plea to driving while intoxicated was entered the same day Mike Huckabee was seeking votes as a Republican presidential candidate in the Super Tuesday primaries.

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