Billy Lane found Not Guilty in North Carolina DUI case
In a late breaking news article on the Florida Today Site, it was just announced that Choppers Inc. owner Billy Lane was cleared of the DUI charges in North Carolina.
This will have no effect on the cases here in Florida because Mr. Lane’s license was still suspended on September 4th, the night of the fatal Crash that took the life of Gerald Morelock. Please see the Florida Today article for the complete story below.
Source: http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/NEWS01/610060334/1006
* Special note: On October 2nd a Wrongful Death suit was filed against Billy Lane and Dodge by the Mother of the victim, Gerald Morelock the victim of the Labor Day crash in Melbourne Beach. I have prepared a comprehensive report on the entire tragedy. Please read my article Wrongful death complaint cites Billy Lane acted outrageously for more information.
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October 6th, 2006 at 11:08 am
I am afraid that will be the only good news Billy will be hearing
for a very long time.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:54 am
You do an awesome job! whats the latest? billy lane had his court date is there any news? thank you..
December 14th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Anthony,
Thanks. The latest is the answer tha Dodge filed in the civil action. Just go to the front page and there is the newest. Also, you can do a search in the top right corner to achieve very good results.
Thanks
December 16th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Thank you for the job of reporting Billy Lane’s situation and the on going situation of the family of the deceased. You do good and thorough work
December 16th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Interested Rider,
Thanks for the comment and for stoping by.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Most likely this will be the only good news Billy Lane hears in a while. I am sure the State of Florida will bring up the case in North Carolina. I heard that the trooper who stopped Lane there is on the State of Florida’s witness list. Killing Mr. Morelock was less than 3 months after the incident in North Carolina. I spoke to a lady in the Rowan County Clerk of Court and Billy Lane’s Florida Drivers License are still in possession of North Carolina. Lane has not started the countermeasures required by North Carolina to get his license back. Lane must go through the North Carolina countermeasures or he can not get his drivers license back in Florida. This is called interstate compact.
March 1st, 2007 at 10:37 am
There was no evidence to convict Lane on the DUI. Lane would not take the implied sobriety tests. It was Lane’s word against the North Carolina Trooper. Then Lane had three witnesses who got up on the stand and held up their hand and swore to tell the truth. They then stated they were with Lane ALL DAY and Lane only had two or three beers. But, Lane crashed his chopper into somebodies car and left the scene. No matter what Lane is without a shadow of a doubt QUILTY of driving with suspended drivers license.
March 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I think he should get the maximum penelty jsut because he is billy lane means nothing “He killed somebody and him and his buddies are sitting aroujnd thinking they are invinsiable and i think is B.S He so hard care biker Kill a bike goto jail
March 16th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Didn’t the family also file a suit against DaimlerChrysler? I can’t imagine that they actually think they’d win that one.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Yes, Florida DUI, The Morelocks filed suit against DaimlerChrysler in a civil action because they owned the vehicle that Billy Lane was driving on September 4th that killed Gerald Morelock. That information can be found in my post Wrongful death complaint cites Billy Lane acted outrageously.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
REALITY CHECK – Here’s some relevant points that no lawyer, cop, MADD nutter (aka cops) nor Media Mobster will ever admit. (1) BAC/BAT scores are never valid for crash victims, due to internal injuries mixing intestinal alcohol with blood alcohol, and a rising score as alcohol is digested after the crash. So the test score at the time of the crash might be 20% of the test score, even without internal injury. Dead victims can only get an accurate test when blood is drawn directly from the heart, which is never done. (2) “Alcohol” machines never test for alcohol, and are never guaranteed by the manufacturers to test for alcohol. (3) Driver licenses are voluntary civil contracts extorted at gunpoint by police state death squads, thus are invalid, thus no court has jurisdiction for traffic citations, including “driving on a revoked or suspended licensed”. Driver licenses can only be required for commercial drivers “for hire”, such as truck drivers and taxi drivers. Every person has a Constitutionally guaranteed God-given Natural right to travel by any mode of transportation, including driving cars or riding deadly horses. Scooter riders don’t need driver licenses in 50 states. FAA does not require pilot licenses for ultralight pilots in 2007. (4) Insane DUI laws result in crash victims prosecuted for first degree murder, which carries the death penalty or life in prison in NC. (5) The so-called “legal limit” for so-called “blood alcohol” is 0.00% (ZERO POINT ZERO ZERO PERCENT). This is true in all 50 states, as published in govt driver license handbooks. THERE IS NO PASSING SCORE FOR BLOOD ALCOHOL. 2 airline pilots in Florida were sentenced to 5 years in prison for the “DUI crime” of drinking coffee in the airport. Likewise so-called “field sobriety tests” also have no passing score, and stone cold sober cops can never pass such a test in a court room in front of a jury. You can drink 24 beers in 24 hours and have a 0.00% BAC/BAT for all 24 hours, according to all driver license test books. (6) So-called alcohol “rehab detox” loony bins actually increase the rate of alcoholism, addiction, overdose, suicide and murder, due to rampant medical malpractice, and are mere police state death camps used to loot insurance funds. (7) Medical doctors are the leading cause of death in USA, murdering over 2.5-million US citizens every year, with immunity from arrest. How many crash victims survived the crash, to be murdered in death camps, with the deaths statistics then blamed on “drunk drivers”? (8) Illegal alien felons murdered over 40,000 US citizens in USA since 9/11/2001, often by DUI homicide, yet police sell them fake ID “driver licenses”, and refuse to arrest and deport them during traffic stops. (9) Every prisoner in jail costs taxpayers $50,000 a year, destroys the “offenders” family and business, destroys the business economy, and prevents the “offender” from paying restitution to the victim. So keep these thoughts in mind when demanding that police state death squads take all your Constitutional rights at gunpoint.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
WOW!! Even I can’t think of a comment!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I just got convicted for a DUI in Cabarrus county for refusing the chemical test. The cop told me if I didn’t take the test, he could assure me I would get a DUI conviction. I took the field test and passed, so I hired a lawyer. It did me no good. The cop got up in front of the judge, and told a story so blatantly full of lies I couldnt believe my ears. And I wasn’t even allowed to say anything. Thats justice for you. The real fun part of it is if you refuse in NC its automatic suspention for 6 months then they convict you in court and take them for a year. Can you say 18 months? Evidently just the smell on your breath is enough. Especially with a lying cop.