DUI death brings 5-year term
DUI death brings 5-year term: "DUI death brings 5-year term
Prison guard drove into a 58-year-old Leesburg bicyclist
Sherri M. Owens
Sentinel Staff Writer
September 27, 2005
TAVARES -- A judge Monday sentenced a federal corrections officer to five years in state prison for DUI-manslaughter in the death last year of a bicycle rider in Leesburg.
Before learning his punishment, Purdie K. Burkes tearfully pleaded with the judge for mercy and leniency. He apologized to Michal Kathleen McPherson's family and described the incident as an accident."
Prison guard drove into a 58-year-old Leesburg bicyclist
Sherri M. Owens
Sentinel Staff Writer
September 27, 2005
TAVARES -- A judge Monday sentenced a federal corrections officer to five years in state prison for DUI-manslaughter in the death last year of a bicycle rider in Leesburg.
Before learning his punishment, Purdie K. Burkes tearfully pleaded with the judge for mercy and leniency. He apologized to Michal Kathleen McPherson's family and described the incident as an accident."
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