He hit the car of 31-year-old officer Thomas Raji in Woodbridge last year. The 10-year-veteran, whose wife was expecting the couple's first child, was killed.
Raji and another officer were driving a prisoner to the Middlesex County Correction Center at the time of the accident.
In court Thursday, McGuirk said that every day, he thinks about his stupid decision to drink and drive and the lives he ruined.
Raji's wife Marisol - who is also a Perth Amboy police officer - called McGuirk's sentence fair, saying, "I know that someday I will be able to forgive him."
She gave birth to a daughter in March.
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