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The decision to drink and drive is a horrible one that can impact the lives of innocent people.

Thursday, August 6, 2009 by Daryoosh Khashayar

The decision to drink and drive is a horrible one that can impact the lives of innocent people, but if you are accused of DUI, the decision of who you retain to represent you is just as important. Take the case of 24-year-old William James P. "Billy" Moon of Placer County, CA.

In October, a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter despite evidence that showed that he might not have been the driver. Moon is facing a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. His family insists that Moon was a passenger and has hired prominent San Francisco lawyer Dennis Riordan to fight for a new trial. This may be Moon’s only hope.

In arguing for a new trial, Riordan reiterated the defense argument that the driver’s severe injuries (the individual that died) clearly placed him on the driver side of the vehicle, which sustained much worse damage than the passenger side.

Riordan also argued that even if Moon had been the driver, he did not act with "implied malice" and a conscious disregard of human life. The young men were only having fun by trying to "get some air" on Bell Road, Riordan said.

"There has never been a California vehicular murder conviction returned on as sparse an evidentiary basis as was provided the jury in this case," Riordan wrote. "Here, there is not a shred of evidence that either Billy Moon or Stewart Shapton was thinking about the possibility of their dying or their killing someone else."

Its cases like these that can impact the way people think about drunk driving. An innocent man may be convicted – and all because he decided to have a few drinks and get in a car.

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Posted at 13:57 PM

Topic: DUI/DWI