Saturday, May 24, 2008
Reed Guilty of Manslaughter
A Pike County jury deliberated for eight and half hours Friday night before coming back with a guilty verdict on Billy Reed.
The jury found the Varney resident guilty of second degree manslaughter.
He was facing a muder charge after authoriites say that the defendant slammed his vehicle into the motorcycle of Ronnie Church causing his death on January 7th in Pikeville.
Pike County Commonwealth Attorney Rick Bartley told us" that he disappointed with the verdict because if there was ever a case that deserved murder because of an impaired driver this was it ", " because we had a driver that ingested multiple drugs from multiple doctors that had no dispute on how the wreck happened."
A jury recommended the maximum sentence of 10 years. Officials told us that Reed will be eleigible for parole in about 17 months because of time already served.
Reed will be formally sentenced on July 23rd by Judge Steve Combs.
The jury found the Varney resident guilty of second degree manslaughter.
He was facing a muder charge after authoriites say that the defendant slammed his vehicle into the motorcycle of Ronnie Church causing his death on January 7th in Pikeville.
Pike County Commonwealth Attorney Rick Bartley told us" that he disappointed with the verdict because if there was ever a case that deserved murder because of an impaired driver this was it ", " because we had a driver that ingested multiple drugs from multiple doctors that had no dispute on how the wreck happened."
A jury recommended the maximum sentence of 10 years. Officials told us that Reed will be eleigible for parole in about 17 months because of time already served.
Reed will be formally sentenced on July 23rd by Judge Steve Combs.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 12:31 PM 
