Brown's sentence was stiffer because his driver's license was suspended after he pleaded no contest last summer to another charge of driving under the influence, Los Angeles city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said.

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Mr Frank, who was born in Switzerland in 1924, spent two years from 1955 driving round America.

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Frank Chavez, 63, a retired parole agent in California, had his first seizure in 1999 while driving his daughter's car.

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