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Illinois Man Convicted of Aggravated DUI in Girlfriend?s Daughter Death

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An Illinois man, Cecil Conner, was found guilty of the drunk driving death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son. The conviction came after Conner’s defense team attempted to shift some of the blame for the child’s death to a police officer. The jury decided, after hours of deliberation in the Will County courtroom, that Conner alone was responsible for the tragic outcome of the May 10 DUI crash. Conner crashed into a tree, drove through a fence, and hit another tree in the accident that killed young Michael Langford, Jr., before being charged with drunk driving, according to an article in the Herald-News. Part of Conner’s unsuccessful DUI defense was the claim that police had some part to play in his drunk driving and subsequent accident...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).