A Long Island drunk driver was sentenced today for blasting his parents’ Mercedes into an elderly woman’s house — but his lawyer claimed that he only plead guilty to the crime to protect his ex-girlfriend, who was really behind the wheel.
“I’m telling you that my client wasn’t the one driving that night,” said William Keahon, the lawyer for Dan Sajewski, 23, who was sentenced to one and a half years in prison.
Instead, he said, Sajewski’s Brooklyn hipster girlfriend, Sophia Anderson — who has since moved back to Connecticut with her parents to recover from her hard-partying days — drive the car into the Huntington house.
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“He pleaded guilty because he cares for Sophia and didn’t want her to face this,” Keahon said, adding Anderson wrote Sajewski a tender letter in prison thanking him for agreeing to plead guilty.
Initially, Anderson almost took the rap for the May 23, 2012 accident because Sajewski was already on probation for a drug charge, said her lawyer, John LoTurco.
"Sophia didn't need to be protected by Daniel," LoTurco said.
"She needed to be protected from Daniel. Sophia was protected by the truth and the overwhelming evidence establishing Daniel as the driver."
LoTurco blasted Keahon's claim -- and portrayed Sajewski was trying to take advantage of a vulnerable young girl to save his own hide. Anderson was 21 years old at the time of the crash.
Sajewski, who has theft and drug charges on his rap sheet, appeared stoic yesterday during his brief sentencing in Riverhead.
He had lived with Anderson in Bushwick before the accident split them up.
Anderson is slated for sentencing Thursday and will likely avoid jail time by pleading to violations related to the crash, sources said.
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