Billy Lane in North Carolina Court for DUI
Billy Lane appeared in court today at 2 p.m. at the Rowan County court house in North Carolina to face charges of DUI.
It was reported that Billy stood before the court clean shaved, in a designer suit and hair concealed inside the suit. One of the issues that have come up in the North Carolina case does strongly affect the case here in Melbourne, Florida. Billy Lane had been released on a $1,000.00 bond on the North Carolina DUI arrest in June of this year. Part of the provisions of the North Carolina bond was that Mr. Lane not drink and drive! So, we are awaiting the news to see if North Carolina will revoke the bond for breach because of the September 4th DUI/Manslaughter charges.
Update: It needs to be noted that Billy Lane was aware if the fact that he was driving on a suspended license. The fact remains that he had no license in his possession. The North Carolina Highway Patrol had the right by law to take Mr. Lanes Florida drivers license from him for his refusal to submit to a sobriety test. The patrolman exercised that right on the night of Billy Lane’s DUI arrest. Currently, Billy Lanes driver license is in the possession and control of the North Carolina District Courts. This points to the fact, again, that Billy Lane had no right to be driving, period, on the night that he caused the wreck that took the life of Gerald Morelock.
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October 21st, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Deckerron,
So true! I am positive that it is the attorney that Billy hired that is keeping this from happening. Which, by the way, I have not mentioned at all here. Because I do not want to even give this person any point of position for keywords and search rankings.
However, he chose this attorney and did so for the sole purpose of getting out of this. He could have been honest with another attorney and asked for the mercy of the court for his wrong doing. He has chose not to do the right thing and chose to hire an attorney that will conceal these feelings and actions. If, in fact, he has any.
Billy has also made the choice not to make any public statement. The only statement that I am aware of is the one made by Choppers Inc. and that was also so vague.
I watched for some time this weekend as Billy stood at his vendor spot at Destination Daytona and signed autographs. I was not able to detect any remorse in his face or actions.
I know that there are many that wondered if he would even show up. Well, he was there with people standing in line to purchase items autographed by him. This will be a topic of writing coming up. Watch for the editorial opinion.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:57 am
I’m with you Mike. Some things just make you say HMMMMMM.(not to sound like Arsenio Hall), But ya really gotta wonder what the word justice or law abiding means sometimes. It seems the mentality these days is becoming more along the lines of “If I don’t get caught it’s O.K.” No harm, no foul attitude. What happened to concience? What ever happened to just plain doing the right thing? What happened to holding ones self to a socially acceptable moral standard? Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t perfect by any means, but if I do something wrong or against the law, presumably “by accident” as is the case with Billy to a degree, I find that being truthful and admitting my mistake is a lot easier than trying to justify it or squirm out of fulfilling my responsibility, and I mean before I get caught.
I’m the guy who’s got to live in my head. I’m a lot tougher on myself than any cop or jail sentence would be. I’d like to see Billy be a real man, and fess up and take responsibility for his actions. A little remorse goes a long way.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
What Billy did was beyond wrong, but I would have to be the last one to judge him. I fell asleep driving once, and hit the car in front of me. The thing is it was not the first time it happened. I knew how tired I was and almost pulled over for a minute. Then I said “nah, hell I’m almost there.” Fortunately no one was hurt, but it was a warm summer day. And many children were out. This was a narrow street and it would have been incredibly easy for me to slump to my right (as it happened the first time I fell alseep driving) and be on the sidewalk on top of some kids before I knew a thing.
I said all that to say that we all really dumb thing behind the wheel, and we should be more careful. Also, we should feel bad for Billy and pray for him even if he doesn’t feel bad for himself.
March 1st, 2007 at 10:56 am
Nobody is perfect and we have all done wrong. As we get older we realize that our freedom is precious. We know if we break the law we can go to jail. They can take you to jail for driving on suspended driving license in Florida. It is a criminal offense. As I type this there is someone in Brevard County Courthouse before a Judge on the charge of driving with a suspended driving license. Life is short. Lane should have learned from getting by with his crime in North Carolina and been thankful all he did was lose his driving license. But Lane did nothing but keep driving and riding without valid drivers license and broke many laws and killed Gerry Morelock because Lane thinks he is above the law. Lane has showed no remorse and no regard for the law that the rest of us follow.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I’m not one to judge. I was paralyzed in a drunk driving accident. I ran into 3 trees, a telephone pole, and house in my new Camaro doing 130mph. I was thrown out of the car, and onto the roof of the house. I rolled off the other side of the house and landed on the porch. I made a documentary, and I travel around the United States speaking in schools about the consequences of abusing alcohol and drinking and driving. I was lucky and didn’t hurt anyone other than myself, but I very well could have. Drinking and driving is one of the most selfish acts someone can commit, and now there is a man who lost his life due to Billy’s selfish act. Today I was talking with Eddie Trotta and Billy had JUST called him bitchin’ about having go “do time” but he needs to look at this as an opportunity and learn from it rather than just a punishment. If he does that, he can turn this around and he would be a great person to teach others about the “real” consequences of drunk driving. I used to think that just “getting caught” were “real” consequences but there are MUCH worse, and the worst part is that they don’t always just involve yourself. PLEASE if you don’t care about yourself, at least think about others out on the roads and don’t put their lives in danger. I thought I was a “professional drunk driver” because I had been doing it since I was 16 but you can make it home a million times but it only takes that one time that you don’t “make it home” to affect, not only your life, but the lives of many others including the friends and families of the injured/killed victim, and your own families. I never realized how much things I did could affect my own family, but when I had my accident my mother went “nuts” and it wasn’t fair to her or the rest of my friends and family. Just PLEASE think of others. I always thought stuff like that only happened to “OTHER PEOPLE”…….”Hi, I’m other people, please don’t become OTHER PEOPLE too.”
July 20th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I already made a post here, but I just reread that post and realized a couple issues. I mentioned that I was speaking with “Eddie Trotta”, who is another biker builder, which many of us know, but I was speaking with him at an event, Muskegon’s Bike Time in Muskegon Michigan, and I made it sound like Billy was just “bitchin” like he was feeling sorry for himself, but I don’t know his state of mind, or if he has remorse or not. I just know he called him and Eddie made it sound like he was looking for some sympathy, and if that is the case, it’s Mr Morelock’s family that deserves our sympathy. Billy needs to serve his time, and hopefully he will learn from this lesson and maybe even help others learn. I just thought it would never happen to me. I came home from Iraq feeling kind of angry, and invincible because I came home without a scratch. Those feelings lasted for a few years. That feeling of invincibility and anger mixed with alcohol made for a bad combination. I NEVER dealt with those issues and that is why I would love to, not only speak in schools, but on military bases. If anyone is interested, my web site is http://www.ForeverChangedLLC.com. I’ve “been there, done that” and I LOVE to try and help. PLEASE think BEFORE you get out on the roads, and before you drink. Make the decision NOW, to not drink and drive before you take the life or LIVES of innocent victims. It’s A LOT easier to make that decision BEFORE you take that first drink.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:59 am
I already made a post here, but I just reread that post and realized a couple issues. I mentioned that I was speaking with “Eddie Trotta”, who is another biker builder, which many of us know, but I was speaking with him at an event, Muskegon’s Bike Time in Muskegon Michigan, and I made it sound like Billy was just “bitchin” like he was feeling sorry for himself, but I don’t know his state of mind, or if he has remorse or not. I just know he called him and Eddie made it sound like he was looking for some sympathy, and if that is the case, it’s Mr Morelock’s family that deserves our sympathy. Billy needs to serve his time, and hopefully he will learn from this lesson and maybe even help others learn. I just thought it would never happen to me. I came home from Iraq feeling kind of angry, and invincible because I came home without a scratch. Those feelings lasted for a few years. That feeling of invincibility and anger mixed with alcohol made for a bad combination. I NEVER dealt with those issues and that is why I would love to, not only speak in schools, but on military bases. If anyone is interested, my web site is http://www.ForeverChangedLLC.com. I’ve “been there, done that” and I LOVE to try and help. PLEASE think BEFORE you get out on the roads, and before you drink. Make the decision NOW, to not drink and drive before you take the life or LIVES of innocent victims. It’s A LOT easier to make that decision BEFORE you take that first drink.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:05 am
I’m not one to judge. I was paralyzed in a drunk driving accident. I ran into 3 trees, a telephone pole, and house in my new Camaro doing 130mph. I was thrown out of the car, and onto the roof of the house. I rolled off the other side of the house and landed on the porch. I made a documentary, and I travel around the United States speaking in schools about the consequences of abusing alcohol and drinking and driving. I was lucky and didn’t hurt anyone other than myself, but I very well could have. Drinking and driving is one of the most selfish acts someone can commit, and now there is a man who lost his life due to Billy’s selfish act. Today I was talking with Eddie Trotta and Billy had JUST called him bitchin’ about having go “do time”. I don’t know how he’s truly feeling, or if he’s feeling “sorry for himself” but the people that he SHOULD be feeling sorry for are the family and friends of the slaughtered victim. He also he needs to look at this as an opportunity and learn from it rather than just a punishment. If he does that, he can turn this around and he would be a great person to teach others about the “real” consequences of drunk driving. I used to think that just “getting caught” were “real” consequences but there are MUCH worse, and the worst part is that they don’t always just involve yourself. PLEASE if you don’t care about yourself, at least think about others out on the roads and don’t put their lives in danger. I thought I was a “professional drunk driver” because I had been doing it since I was 16 but you can make it home a million times but it only takes that one time that you don’t “make it home” to affect, not only your life, but the lives of many others including the friends and families of the injured/killed victim, and your own families. I never realized how much things I did could affect my own family, but when I had my accident my mother went “nuts” and it wasn’t fair to her or the rest of my friends and family. Just PLEASE think of others. If anyone is interested in checking out a short trailer from my documentary, or would like to hire me, I have a lot of great comments from educators, counselors, mental health workers, mayors, judges, teens, and others about the effect my presentations had on them and they are posted on my web site, http://www.ForeverChangedLLC.com. I always thought stuff like this only happened to “OTHER PEOPLE”………….”Hi, I’m OTHER PEOPLE, please don’t become OTHER PEOPLE too.”
May 31st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I know Billy personally and know he was devastated by this accident. It was a wake-up call that he didn’t ever want. He is holding a lot inside and doesn’t show it outwardly. He just wants to get by it the best he can. He can’t just lay down and die. We can’t undo what’s happened or we’d all be living in the past. We all can be criticized when something goes wrong. In this case it had a lot worse consequences than running a red light where someone could still be killed. I’m sure Billy will come out of this with a ambition to re-evaluate his future and influence many others to do so as well. I’ve had over 40 years of handling accident claims and I have felt his remorse and desire to make some real changes in his life. Amen.