Arrest and Conviction
In 2005, Conner was arrested and convicted of DUI-manslaughter and Vehicular homicide, after a September 4, 2004 car accident left a bicyclist, Jonathan Michael Conklin, 32 of Carrollwood, Florida, dead. A witness tesitfied at Conner's July 2005 trial, that just before 2 a.m. on September 4, 2004, Conner was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser on Linebaugh Avenue. They also said that Conner's headlights were off when he first turned onto Linebaugh. He then turned them on but swerved across the road lines. The prosecution argued that Conner veered into the bike lane and struck Conklin.
Conner was convicted of DUI-manslaughter and Vehicular Homicide and is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence, the maximum allowed punishment. However, in July 2008, an appeals court ruled that he would be given a retrial.
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