ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A dramatic and outburst-marked court appearance Thursday for Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio was consequential but is far from the culmination of her highly-scrutinized legal saga.

Astacio was arrested for DWI in February 2016, and convicted in August. After violating a condition of her sentence, she was then sent to jail. Judge Stephen Aronson on Thursday sentenced Astacio to 60 days in jail, three years of probation and ordered her to wear an ankle bracelet that monitors for alcohol.

Astacio's defense attorney asked for the judge to sentence Astacio to straight jail time instead of the three-year probation. The judge declined the request.

Mark Young, Astacio’s attorney, said that Astacio "will violate probation the moment you put her on probation."

Defense attorney Mark Foti, who is not connected to the Astacio case, said it's somewhat unusual to hear attorneys tell a judge outright that their clients plan to violate the terms of their probation. Foti though says they were doing that to try and get Astacio what she wanted; jail time instead of three years of possibly restrictive terms of a probation; conditions that could include no traveling, random searches and/or constant testing.

While Astacio will have to deal with those terms when released, what has always been looming in the background is what the Commission on Judicial Conduct will think of the latest in the case and the latest exchange from Thursday's hearing.

Only the Commission can remove Astacio from her elected position on the bench. All the commission's cases are private until when or if a decision is made.

"The Judicial Commission is going to consider a long record here of what's taken place since the original allegations," Foti said," and in particular, the comments by the attorney at the end might be something of interest to them.

"I think they would be more interested to see whether there actually is a violation, because a comment made by an attorney based on their effort to advocate for an alternative sentence isn't the equivalent of actually going out and violating it."

Foti’s best advice for Astacio is this.

"Follow the rules of probation, show them you're capable of following through, something she said she was able to do during her comments at sentencing yesterday," Foti said, "and if you can show that, there's the potential to be terminated from probation early and you can prove those members of the public who are against your wrong."

Administrative Judge Craig Doran said the day after Astacio is released from jail, she is to report at 9 a.m. to the Hall of Justice. As he had decided before, she will work out of a public place in the courthouse doing legal research or other duties as assigned.

Doran says his priority continues to be that while all this unfolds, people can still feel confidence in the work the this judicial district is accomplishing.