By Sean O’Driscoll 

A Pennsylvania man who killed an Irish dancer in a drunk driving crash may be out of prison in two years, prosecutors have confirmed to the Irish Voice. 

A source at the Pittsburgh Prosecutors Office expressed surprise after former National Guardsman Joseph Livoti pleaded guilty last week to killing the Clare teenager Margaret Brohan after driving from a bar. 

Livoti pleaded guilty to the vehicular homicide of 19-year-old Ennis native Brohan, who was touring in the U.S. with the Rhythm of the Dance Irish traditional dance troop last year. 

Livoti is due to be sentenced on February 3 after prosecutors insisted that he serve the standard three to six years in prison for Pennsylvania death by driving cases. 

However, Livoti could be released after two years if he is accepted into a boot camp program after one year in a state prison. 

One member of the prosecution team expressed surprise that Livoti had pleaded guilty as the driver of the car in which Brohan was traveling had also been convicted of drunken driving. 

“He could have fought this but he did the right thing. It’s obvious that he was the cause of this accident and he saved the Brohan family a lot of grief,” he said. 

Livoti had a blood alcohol content of 0.198 percent when his pickup truck hit a car in Pittsburgh in November, 2003. Under Pennsylvania law, a driver is presumed intoxicated at 0.08 percent. 

Brohan, who was in the back seat on car, died at the scene. Two other people in the car had been performing in an Irish music venue with Brohan earlier that evening.