http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090609/BREAKINGNEWS/90609007/Judge+accepts+Billy+Lane+s+no-contest+plea&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSELJudge accepts Billy Lane's no-contest plea
Ex-celebrity bike builder faces Aug. 14 sentencing
BY KEYONNA SUMMERS • FLORIDA TODAY • June 9, 2009
VIERA -- A Brevard judge today accepted motorcycle builder Billy Lane’s plea of no contest to a single felony count of vehicular homicide.
He faces a cap of about nine years in prison when he is sentenced at 9 a.m. Aug. 14 by Circuit Judge Robert Burger. Prosecutors dropped a DUI manslaughter charge under the terms of the plea bargain.
The deal also mandates a lifetime license suspension, though defense lawyer Greg Eisenmenger said Lane might be able to retain use of it for specific purposes, such as work.
Probation, house arrest or alcohol and drug provisions will be up to the discretion of the judge.
Police said Lane's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he crossed a double yellow line to pass slow traffic on State Road A1A south of Melbourne Beach on Labor Day 2006.
Lane, 39, crashed his Dodge pickup head on into Sebastian Inlet park ranger Gerald Morelock‘s motorcycle, killing the 56-year-old man instantly.