A 54-year-old Aurora man was sentenced to probation and community service for his sixth drunken driving conviction — a felony — last month despite pleas from prosecutors that he be incarcerated.

The 18th Judicial District attorney’s office says it asked for Doyle Carmack to be sentenced to four years of community corrections. Instead, on July 29, he was ordered to complete five years on probation and 75 hours of community service.

“He did not spend even one night in jail,” the district attorney’s office said in a news release.

District Attorney George Brauchler called the decision part of a trend among lawmakers to “strip away mandatory minimum sentences from our most serious charges.”

“While Colorado’s one-year-old felony DUI law was a step in the right direction, it lacks the promise of prison needed to protect our community from those who drive dangerously drunk on our roads over and over and over again,” Brauchler said in a statement.

A new Colorado law makes a fourth DUI conviction a felony and can send the offender to prison for up to six years.

Carmack was arrested in March, after officials say he was seen driving erratically in a GMC Sierra pickup about 2:30 a.m. in Aurora. He was taken into custody after failing roadside sobriety tests, prosecutors said, and his blood-alcohol level was later determined to be .235, nearly three times Colorado’s limit of .08.

“Doyle indignantly asked me several times who was going to give him a ride to pick up his truck, and suggested that I should do it,” an Aurora officer wrote in a report on Carmack’s arrest. “He seemed to take no responsibility for his actions which had led to his arrest.”

A police body camera recording from the arrest shows Carmack telling an officer he had consumed a “couple beers” before getting behind the wheel.

Carmack pleaded guilty in the case to driving under the influence, a Class 4 felony. Authorities say he had been convicted in Missouri five other times of driving under the influence, including in 1987, 1991, 1996, 1997 and 1999.

Court records show Judge Natalie Turnmire Chase oversaw the sentencing in Carmack’s case.

Last month, in a similar case, a Jefferson County judge sentenced a man whose record includes five DUI convictions to one year of work release under a plea agreement.