Burlington man convicted on murder charge in wreck death..

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This is news! A driver conviceted of murder for killing a biker!
http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/04/20/article/burlington_man_convicted_on_murder_charge_in_wreck_death
GRAHAM (MCT) — After a half hour of deliberation, a jury found Acie Terry Moore guilty Tuesday of the second-degree murder of a motorcyclist last summer.
Moore was also found guilty of felony death by vehicle. Jurors found that Moore was driving while impaired and caused the Aug. 14 wreck that killed 44-year-old Anthony Satterfield on N.C. 87. Satterfield was knocked from his motorcycle when Moore's Ford F-250 truck, traveling south, crossed the center line just before 9 p.m. on a stretch of the highway about four miles north of Elon.
Moore, 52, of Buckingham Road in Burlington, was sentenced to 185 months — or 15 years five months — in prison. He has the possibility of being released in 146 months, or just over 12 years, for good behavior. Superior Court Judge Wayne Abernathy also ordered Moore pay $12,705 in funeral expenses to the Satterfield family. Moore was recommended for work release.

The trial began April 12, with more than 30 witnesses testifying before the state and defense rested Monday afternoon.
During the trial, some of those witnesses testified to seeing Moore at a bar on Aug. 14, and that he was stumbling and appeared drunk. A bartender testified that she served him three beers that afternoon.
Moore took the stand Monday and testified that he hadn't visited a bar that day, but that he'd had three beers at a friend's house. Moore performed poorly on field sobriety tests that night and registered a 0.15 breath alcohol content more than two hours after the crash, Trooper Brett Norton with the Highway Patrol testified.
Jurors heard more than two hours of closing arguments Tuesday morning.

Defense attorney Jim Joyner asked jurors to consider Moore's medical condition. Moore is diabetic, and Joyner argued that Moore could have been suffering from a diabetic attack and that the state didn't investigate that possibility.
Paul Soderberg, Alamance County assistant district attorney, reminded jurors that Moore had been convicted of DWI before.

During the sentencing hearing, Patsy Byrd spoke to Moore's character. She has lived with Moore nearly 27 years and has recently had health problems that required nearly constant care. Moore provided for her while holding down a job and running a lawn business on the side.