James Crouch embraces his attorney Joseph B. Cheshire V Tuesday Dec. 4, 2012 before he is escorted from the courtroom where he was sentenced to a year of prison. Crouch, a former Raleigh lawyer who became a felon and lost his law license over a DWI backdating scheme, will spend at least a year in prison for his crimes.Judge Paul Ridgeway sentenced the 46-year-old husband and father in Wake County Superior Court as lawyers and supporters watched.As all the lawyers in this case, the real victims of the crimes committed by Mr. Crouch are the citizens of North Carolina, Ridgeway said, breaking from his tradition of typically not speaking before a sentencing. CHUCK LIDDY — cliddy@newsobserver.com