Former Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot said she is disappointed that her DWI trial was pushed back to early next year, and criticized prosecutors for moving to introduce two new witnesses during a recent court conference.

In an interview a short time after last month’s court appearance, Ms. Kabot said prosecutors asked a judge to allow two new witnesses to testify at trial—a move that pushed back her trial date from October to late January. Ms. Kabot said that if the witnesses, who she said are employees at Magic’s Pub in Westhampton Beach, are allowed to testify, they will say she was drinking alcohol at the Main Street bar some six to seven hours before she was arrested in the early morning hours of September 7, 2009—an account she called “patently false.”

“I am disappointed that my trial date has been delayed yet again, and in open court on October 26 my attorney stated that the assistant district attorneys should be ashamed of themselves,” Ms. Kabot said. “It’s an outrage that the district attorney’s office should use such false testimony and malicious rumors as testimony against me.”

Ms. Kabot said she did not know the names of the two employees who could take the stand, and Robert Clifford, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, declined to identify them.

The account by the witnesses would contradict what Ms. Kabot told Westhampton Beach Village Police officers on the morning of her arrest on Labor Day 2009: that she had consumed only two glasses of wine at her sister’s house in East Moriches the prior evening, according to Mr. Clifford.

“Assistant District Attorneys Anthony Baron and Joshua Shapiro stated in court ... that the witnesses’ testimony will establish an ongoing course of conduct by the defendant,” Mr. Clifford wrote in an e-mail. “These witnesses will testify that Linda Kabot was at a bar between approximately 4 and 6 p.m. [on September 6, 2009], and that she ordered two beers and another round. When she was stopped by the police, the defendant claimed she had consumed only two glasses of wine.”

In an interview just weeks after her arrest, Ms. Kabot’s defense attorney, William Keahon, said his client drank two normal-sized glasses of wine over several hours before her arrest on September 7, 2009. At the time, Mr. Keahon said his client had one glass of wine around 7 p.m. and a second glass between 9 and 9:15 p.m. while attending a 40th birthday party at her sister’s house. She was pulled over at 12:25 a.m. on September 7 on Main Street in Westhampton Beach, just down the block from Magic’s Pub.

Riverhead Town Justice Allen Smith had scheduled Ms. Kabot’s trial to begin on October 25, but pushed it back to January 31 while he decides on whether or not to admit the two new witnesses. The decision will come some time in December, according to Ms. Kabot and Mr. Keahon.

In another interview, Mr. Keahon said the accounts offered by the witnesses are irrelevant. He said there would have been too much time between Ms. Kabot’s alleged drinking in the late afternoon and early evening on September 6, 2009, and her arrest at 12:25 a.m. the next morning for the alcohol to have had any effect.

“If they’re claiming she had three beers from 3 to 6, by 7 o’clock all those beers are out of her system,” Mr. Keahon said. “All the alcohol in her bloodstream is out of her system.” In any case, Mr. Keahon said he believes the accounts offered by the witnesses are false.

Ms. Kabot, who lost her reelection bid to Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst in November 2009, said she is not considering a return to politics, and 
instead has been “focused on her family, and my own personal well-being and health.” She said she has lost 40 pounds since leaving office, through diet and exercise.

The former supervisor, who lives in Quogue with her husband, Lance, and their three children, said she has taken her LSATs and is considering enrolling in law school. She also said she is considering going back to work on a part-time basis, perhaps at a law office, to help support her family, but is worried that the charges leveled against her may make it difficult to land a job.

“It’s unsettling sometimes to an employer that you’re a controversial former public figure, and there could be news about the situation,” she said.

And Ms. Kabot remains adamant that she is not, and never was, a “closet drunk,” as she said some may suspect based on the charges against her.

“They’re going to be embarrassed at the end of the day,” she said of prosecutors. “Because it’s not true. I do not go to bars.”