QUINCY, Mass. (AP) – A drunken-driving defendant who wore his National Guard uniform for a court appearance Thursday now faces a charge of jury intimidation after he allegedly entered the jury pool room and said “Go easy on me.”

Kevin Butler of Quincy told WCVB-TV that the incident never happened and that some members of the jury pool are lying in an effort to get out of jury duty.

“All of the witnesses stated essentially the same. They stated that while they were sitting in the jury room, they witnessed a gentlemen pacing around the open jury room door dressed in full military fatigues. The man stuck his head inside the room and questioned if it was the jury room. An individual from the potential jury pool stated that it was. The man then stated something to the effect of, Be gentle with me,’ or Go easy on me,”‘ prosecutor Bob Brown said in Quincy District Court.

The military uniform was part of Butler’s plan to intimidate jurors, prosecutors said.

Butler said he spoke to a trooper and to a prosecutor in the courthouse, but no one else.

Butler pleaded guilty to the drunken-driving charge and received a 90-day suspended sentence. He posted $5,000 bail on the jury intimidation charge and is scheduled back in court next month.