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Archive for 15/08/2009
Billy Lane gets 6 years in Prison
15/08/2009 by info.
VIERA — Celebrity motorcycle builder Billy Lane said he has driven every day for nearly three years past a stretch of State Road A1A in Melbourne Beach where he fatally struck and killed Gerald Morelock in a head-on collision.
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It’s there, Lane said in court Friday, that “I pray to God for his soul and for his family.”
For the next six years, Lane will be an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections after a judge delivered his sentence Friday in Morelock’s Sept. 4, 2006, death. Police said Lane was driving drunk — his blood-alcohol level at twice the legal limit — when his pickup collided with the 56-year-old’s motorcycle.
He had faced up to nine years in prison under the terms of a plea deal in which he pleaded no contest to one count of vehicular homicide.
“I take full responsibility,” Lane, choking back tears, told the judge before his sentencing. “I was very careless. I’m not looking for pity on myself. Whatever you decide today, judge . . . I hope you’ll look at Mr. Morelock and myself and make a fair decision.”
Circuit Court Judge Robert Berger also sentenced Lane to three years of probation and suspended his driver’s license for life.
Lane also must attend a victim awareness class and undergo random drug and alcohol testing during his probation. He already has completed a court-ordered class about driving under the influence, his attorney said.
The sentence capped three years of legal wrangling, which included a change in defense attorneys, a change in judges and a settlement of a wrongful death suit brought by the victim’s family. A civil suit filed by Lane’s passenger, who was injured in the crash, lingers in civil court.
The judge in June approved a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed to drop the DUI manslaughter charge, saying both charges carry the same penalty, and their goal was for Lane to accept responsibility.
In court Friday, Lane’s attorney, Greg Eisenmenger, argued for a sentence without prison time, citing a desire by Morelock’s family for a “positive resolution” and saying the need for restitution outweighed the need for incarceration.
BY KEYONNA SUMMERS • FLORIDA TODAY • August 15, 2009
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