Billy Lane’s defense team seeks more info

BY KEYONNA SUMMERS
FLORIDA TODAY

VIERA — Former lawyers for motorcycle builder Billy Lane officially resigned from his DUI manslaughter case today, while Lane’s new attorneys asked prosecutors to turn over any additional information that would help the case move forward.

Brevard Circuit Judge Meryl Allawas granted a motion to withdraw by the law firm Funk, Szachacz & Diamond LLC nearly a month after the firm Berry, Eisenmenger and Peters PA said Lane retained them in late January.

Attorney Keith Szachacz appeared on behalf of his firm.

“We had a conflict that the rules of professional responsibility required us to file, and our duties to Mr. Lane preclude us from disclosing the nature of that conflict,” Szachacz said after the hearing. “But Billy is a good, caring man and we will do everything we can to continue to assist him and (attorney Gregory) Eisenmenger’s office.”

Eisenmenger said he had not reviewed several documents he received Friday from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He and Assistant State Attorney Tom Brown said they would meet to discuss requesting any others available from the Florida Highway Patrol, the agency that arrested Lane following the Labor Day crash that killed motorcyclist Gerald Morelock.

Lane, whom investigators said had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, faces 15 years in prison of convicted of the DUI manslaughter charge.

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