Sam Donaldson, the ABC News anchor arrested in December and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, pleaded not guilty and requested a nonjury trial in the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas, where a Georgetown attorney familiar with DUI cases will represent him.
Donaldson was arraigned April 22 on the DUI charge, as well as a charge of making an improper lane change, court records show, after his case was elevated from Justice of the Peace Court, where many DUI charges are adjudicated. A trial is scheduled for June 10 in Georgetown before Judge Rosemary B. Beauregard.
Donaldson, 79, of McLean, Va., was stopped by Lewes police while driving on Savannah Road shortly before 8 p.m. Dec. 1. After standard field sobriety tests, he was arrested and charged, Lewes police said. Lewes Police Chief Jeffrey Horvath said at the time that the arresting officer did not recognize Donaldson as a public figure, and that Donaldson was “polite and cooperative.”
The broadcast news veteran covered Watergate for ABC and was a White House correspondent for the network during the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations. He co-hosted the Sunday news show “This Week” from 1996 to 2002, and was a longtime host of ABC’s news magazine show “Prime Time Live.” He remains an occasional guest panelist on “This Week,” although he has not taken part in the show’s roundtable discussions in 2012 or 2013, according to ABC News’s transcripts of the episodes.
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