I had to testify at a DUI manslaughter case from work about 3 years ago, the wreck was 3 years before that. Defence attorney tried all kinds of tricks to get the guy off. At the end of it the guy got 20 years, and he came from a wealthy family in town. I don't know what this guys situation is, but if the police and the state attorney are on top of it, he may go away.

I think that you may be missing my point.
Mr Lane is  allegedly a drunk driver who killed another motorcyclist. The point is that some of us are a lot more responsible  and don't glory in the fact that Billy Lane celebrity bike builder is cool.
I personally don't care for his style of bike, the bad boy image he promotes or any of that "watch me drink beer because I am a bad boy biker build off person  who thinks he is above the law."
He is not something he pretends to be, and although he is a celebrity biker he deserves to get what the law dishes out for  allegedly  driving drunk and causing an accident resulting i the death of another human.
Maybe you would feel a little different about this if the person he allegedly killed while allegedly driving under the influence of intoxicants was ........say..... your mother, sister, father, brother, neighbour etc.
Now I shall dispense with the niceness..........
Billy Lane is a schmuk who while drunk killed another biker.He deserves prison at the very least , a good spooning from Bobspapa and no place on this board.End of story.

Quote from: squidwood on August 19, 2008, 07:57:58 PM
Maybe you would feel a little different about this if the person he allegedly killed while allegedly driving under the influence of intoxicants was ........say..... your mother, sister, father, brother, neighbour etc.
Now I shall dispense with the niceness..........
Billy Lane is a schmuk who while drunk killed another biker.He deserves prison at the very least , a good spooning from Bobspapa and no place on this board.End of story.

Er....we're all for Billy getting strung up-why shouldn't we discuss it here?

Agreed. As much as I hate to see this type of story is serves as a sobering reminder of where a few bad choices can lead us to. I understand your say "he isn't worth the time or effort of discussing" and that may well be true..... but the incident and it's ramifications are. Take his name out of it and you still end up with a compelling tragedy.

Quote from: 696 Duc Drive on August 18, 2008, 04:43:31 PM
I know some friends of his and they said he took up MMA fighting.

Gettign ready for the shower sessions.