THIS ROAD HAS NEEDED TO BE WIDENED FOR OVER 30 YEARS, WHAT THE FUCK BREVARD?

Lane getting 6 years, a misscarriage of justice? I don’t know. 6 years is a long time and if he wasn’t famous and bring the media’s attention he would have gotten less. That is a fact!

A friend’s wife was killed by a drunk. The drunk chick was bailed out by her rich parents and proceeded to get another DUI BEFORE being sentenced for killing my friends wife. What did she get? 3 years….So don’t give me this BULLSHIT how Lane got off easy, not in FUCKING BREVARD COUNTY!

Both were under the influence, both broke the law.

Seeing his pictures on the Florida Today mugshots site was interesting because he didn’t look like a tough guy anymore… he was clean shaven and dreadless, short in the company of his legal handlers and crying in one of the pictures. I think Mr. Lane has learned a lesson of humility here. Its a tough way to learn a lesson but he is now pondering this in jail – at taxpayer’s expense. I hope he gets out and does all those PSA’s that the victims family wanted him to do. If he does those service announcements, I’ll change my mind about Billy Lane.

But for now, I’ll remember him as the guy described in my friend’s story.

Thanks!
Eddy

You’re right- I’m just a dipshit who types stuff on here for a living.

Hey- I see you’re going into the lawyer biz- that’s great! You’re a really smart guy, you’ll do really well- at least as well as you’re doing in the bike biz, anyway!

You’re my new hero- free Billy Lane, Mike! He gonna love you long time……

While the sentence handed out to Mr Stallworth IS a legal travesty, the totality of each of these situations is completely different. From DAY 1, Dante Stallworth stepped up, assumed FULL responsibilty, reached out to the victim’s family, and never hid behind lawyers or the NFL. Mr Lane’s freedom of choice(s) decided to let Florida’s legal system work it’s course, just like he decided to drive that fateful day extremely impaired by alcohol. It is this writer’s opinion that Mr Morelock’s decisions, abilities, and condition(s) had little, if anything to do with the individual choices Mr Lane made almost 3 years ago.

Here is the way I see it.Billy & Rogue are friends. Friends support friends. I support Billy as a friend and my heart goes out to the Morelock family. No winners here. I think you people are missing Rogue’s point. He’s not trying to got defend Billy’s case, he is commenting on the judge’s decision and the DA’s strong influence on the sentence. I feel that with all the evidence, Billy made his own choice, he copped a plea. He rolled the dice. It’s alot better than what is was facing, up to 30 years on the DUI charge. Billy was not charged with DUI , thanks to his lawyers. Love em or hate em, you need them to protect your rights. Yes Mr Morelock was guilty of bad judgement in pulling out in his own lane in his condition. Billy should have never been on the road himself in his condition. But his lawyers had the blood samples pulled and so does that mean he was not impaired ?? You be the judge.. He was facing 30, then 9 and got 6 years. Pretty good lawyers. We are entitled to defend ourselves here in the USA. Right or wrong, it’s our right. Is the sentence too stiff ?, He can appeal and it sure beat’s Mr. Morelock sentence.

Let it be know that Billy was remorseful ,admitted his mistake and the Morelock family asked the court not to give him the maximun sentence.Seems they made their peace.Not saying that’s enough, but It could have been Billy’s life also .He lucky and should be thankful in the fact he is living and breathing.. Had it been one of the DA’s “good ole boy’, the sentence would not have been the same. Had it been you or I without Billy’s lawyers, I think they would have thrown the book at us.

I have a funeral to attend tomorrow of a good friend & fellow biker who passed away last Saturday in a 1 bike only accident, He was out for a little putt on a back road and missed the only curve going 30 MPH.Yes he was wearing a helment, no he wasn’t drinking and knew the road.What happened ,I will never know because I was not there. I’ll ask him when my times up.

In the mean time, reflective on why you ride and when you get to be in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame like Rogee, e-me, if not ,read up on what it takes to get there.Remember 15,000 bucks and a bike doesn’t make you a biker. Get in the Wind~Ride it like you Stole it & Enjoy. That’s what’s riding is all about. Hell, I guarantee you wouldn’t even think about this blog if you were on some nice twisty road !! R.I.P. Scooter, you will be missed !

“It is for the above reason that the crash liability belongs to Morelock.”

The speed limit was exceeded in this accident. I don’t know FL law, but doesn’t the fact that a law was broken in the death of someone play a role in this situation? i.e. if the speed limit was not exceeded, the whole mess may have been avoided.

Greenwald: “If you do not have reasonable doubt, you have a closed mind.” There is nothing reasonable about suggesting this was suicidal. You are reaching.

Double-standard? there is no way you would be going to bat for, as you put it, “moped/minibike ridin’ fool” if he was driving the truck that killed a celebrity biker. You wouldn’t have even been interested enough to read the details from his perspective, especially if there were reports of prior DUI dismissals on his record.

I’ve been down that same section of road after drinking at the same bar doing 80 (on a motorcycle with other idiots doing the same thing)…passing cars on the double yellows. That section of road has very good visibility to oncoming traffic and I remember wondering why it had a double yellow…,the thing that I realized after sobering up was the risk of someone coming out of a driveway is the real danger….this was all before the accident.

If you can HONESTLY say you’ve never drank and driven recklessly your opinions are valid….if not you really shouldn’t judge the man, and if that was the standard for posting there would probably be half a dozen posts here and not nearly 100.

My (worthless by definition…given the above) opinion is the guy should have gotten a few months, the US has the highest incarceration rate of all the developed (and most of the undeveloped) world. Besides the tragic event he’s been a positive contributor to society and it’s not helping anyone to have him behind bars. I’ve met the man although I don’t know him well and he seems like a decent human being. He does not appear to be a hazard to anyone, in the 3 years he’s been out he’s had zero issues (driving on suspended license,etc.).

And, as has been stated already, the victim’s family has forgiven….

Glad your experience in law is good. By the way what is your name or are you a keyboard commando that went to a school off a matchbook cover?

Frank H,

THanks for pimpin’ for me. Seems as thoughg you are a professional at it and give pipmpin’ it’s just due.

Lane files an appeal charging ineffective council. Once the appellate court hears the matter surely the case will be over turned and sent back to the lower court to retry. Lane would be free at that time to fire his ineffective council and hire Barrister Greenwald to represent him. Naturally once his new attorney (Greenwald) explains to the DA where both he and the Grand Jury were mistaken in charging poor Billy, the DA will immediately dismiss the case and issue a public apology to Poor Billy. Wham Bam Billy is free!

Once Billy is free the DA is then able to file charges against Morelock for causing his own suicide … naturally Morelock will have to be charged posthumously as he was killed by Poor Billys truck during the suicide.

Billy, through his new attorney Greenwald, could also seek damages for wrongful incarceration due to the actions of that evil doer Morelock and receive all his money (and Chryslers money) back from the Morelock family. Hugh King could then film a new Biker Build Off and Billy is on top again. And everyone lived happy thereafter ….. end of Fairy Tale !

Simple!

Man, I wasted three years in Law school, Mike- where were you before I paid all that tuition?

Had I met you earlier, I may have realized that there is NO such thing as “guilty”- that EVERY defendent EVER convicted can show “reasonable doubt”, and that we should just throw out the existing Justice system, because it is always wrong

Damn.

Then again, I never saw a truly innocent man take a plea bargain, ADMIT guilt in court, and never blink an eye as Lane did…… When they curl up and lay down like that, you can be pretty sure that Justice was served.

Fortunately for you, the system even allows for delusion- so let’s see if there is any basis for an appeal (there isn’t, of course), and Lane can take a swing at your “I was the victim of a suicidal scooter dude” defense……….

Gosh- Lane’s lawyers must be really stupid not to have picked up on all of your finds, Mike- what’s he paying them again? Sweet gig- I may have to take the Bar exam down here……..

No double standard at all.

It is interesting that I got sucked into this Billy Lane thing. From the get go, I felt as if he was in the wrong with it all until I took a look at the Florida laws and at the accident scene investigation reports. Once I did that, I looked at a few other things relevant to the case and those playing it out for Billy.

Billy may have been guilty of something but he was not guilty of an illegal pass.

Unfortunately, Gerald Morelock, by law, was required to do two things based upon two Florida laws. He was required to stop and required to not impede any traffic that was in progress upon the roadway. He did neither and inserted himself upon his vehicle into a situation that was not correctable.

Both Lane and Morelock attempted to avoid each other and were unable to rectify satisfactorily the impending impact.

It is for the above reason that the crash liability belongs to Morelock.

If you do not have reasonable doubt, you have a closed mind.

Furthermore to those of you that reference Morelock as a victim, suicide has victims and the possibility is there considering the depressants present in Morelock’s toxicology.

More reasonable doubt?