Florida - ~Judge rejects Billy Lane's bid to get his prison sentence reduced~
A judge has rejected imprisoned celebrity motorcycle builder Billy Lane's bid to get his six-year sentence reduced, according to the Clerk of Court .
Attorneys for Lane, 39, filed a motion last week asking Brevard Circuit Judge Robert Burger to give his fatal crash victim's family another chance to say what kind of punishment he should receive and to reduce Lane's sentence if he saw fit.
Lane was sentenced in August to six years in prison after pleading no contest to one count of vehicular homicide for crashing his pickup truck head-on into 56-year-old Gerald Morelock's motorcycle while speeding past slow traffic in a no-pass zone on Sept. 4, 2006.
The motion claimed intense media and public scrutiny caused Morelock's brother and nephew to be "vague" at Lane's sentencing about their belief that Lane would better be able to benefit society if he were not incarcerated.
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