Tony Logan’s status as Tuscumbia’s police chief remains unchanged in the wake of his sentencing Tuesday on driving under the influence charges.

Logan was charged with DUI on Dec. 5, 2009, after he crashed his personal vehicle into his mailbox and collided with his city-owned work car that was parked in the driveway of the home on Castleton Road in Florence where he lived at the time.

He was convicted of DUI in Florence Municipal Court in March 2010. He appealed that conviction and was then convicted Jan. 12 in Etowah County, where the trial was moved because of publicity about his arrest.

During a five-minute hearing Tuesday, Lauderdale Circuit Court Judge Gil Self sentenced Logan to one year in jail, but reduced the sentence to the two days Logan has already spent in jail.

Logan will be under the supervision of a court referral officer for two years, which includes random drug testing.

Logan’s driver’s license will be suspended for 90 days.

Self also ordered Logan to pay a $761 fine and participate in the county’s victims’ impact panel.

“Chief Logan, I have never sentenced a police chief for DUI,” Self said. “You can be assured I’m not going to treat you any differently or any harsher because of your position.”

Self told Logan the two-day sentence is standard for first-time DUI offenders in his court.

Logan displayed no emotion as Self imposed the sentence.

Logan declined to comment as he left the courtroom.

Defense attorneys Tim Case and James Irby are appealing Logan’s conviction to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Until the appeal runs its course, Tuscumbia Mayor Bill Shoemaker said the City Council will take no action on Logan’s job status.

“When he called to tell me the sentence, Tony asked if it was OK to come back to work,” Shoemaker said. “I told him that everything is still like it was six months ago. Until his appeal is resolved, there is nothing we can do as far as his position with the city goes.”

During the appeals process. Logan will retain his driver’s license and not have to begin his court-ordered supervision or pay his fine.

Logan has already served a suspension from his job. He was suspended from the time of his arrest until March 2010.

Prosecutor Brandon Hughes said he is satisfied with the sentence.

“I can’t complain,” he said.

Hughes, traffic enforcement prosecutor for the Alabama Office of Prosecution Services in Montgomery, supports Self’s decision to impose the standard sentence for Logan.

“When it comes time for a judge to impose a sentence, no one should be treated differently because of their job,” Hughes said.

Case said he and Irby continue to support Logan.

“We believed in him back when this happened and we believe in him even more strongly now,” Case said.

Dennis Sherer can be reached at 256-740-5746 or dennis.sherer@TimesDaily.com.