PATTERSON - A tavern owner faces sentencing for allowing an off-duty bartender to drink during last year's Super Bowl shortly before she was involved in a head-on car crash that killed her and another woman.

Ray Knox Jr., the owner of the Paddock tavern in Putnam County, was scheduled to be sentenced Monday night in Patterson Town Court. He was convicted of violating New York's alcoholic beverage law, which can hold a bartender or server liable for injuries caused by a drunken patron.

Prosecutors had said they wanted Knox to be incarcerated.

Police said the 43-year-old bartender, Sandra Longchamps, of Southeast, had finished her shift at the Paddock Restaurant and Tavern on Super Bowl Sunday last year and had remained to have drinks. They said she was visibly intoxicated.

Police said Longchamps then drove a short distance from the bar and her sport utility vehicle crossed onto oncoming traffic and struck a minivan driven by Kristen Henry, of Holmes, N.Y., killing both of them. Henry's husband and three children were seriously injured.

A coroner's report said Longchamps's blood alcohol level was more than four times the legal limit.

Knox's attorney, Robert Mancuso, said after his client's January conviction that an appeal was likely. He said he felt the prosecution did not prove his client's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.