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Old 09-29-2004, 09:01 PM   #7 (permalink)
pan6467
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Here's the Cleveland PD story on the lady:

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Driver gets maximum penalty
Woman who killed couple gets 20 years
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
James F. McCarty
Plain Dealer Reporter
Defiant until the end, Robbie Moore was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for getting drunk, driving the wrong way, and killing a newlywed couple on a motorcycle in May.

Moore, 29, of Warrensville Heights, pleaded guilty last month to aggravated vehicular homicide in the deaths of Jeffrey Bliss, 25, and his wife, Ann Marie, 20, of Parma, on Cleveland's Inner Belt May 20.


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The couple had been married nine days.

Moore maintained the deaths were an accident. She insisted she had downed only 2½ alcoholic drinks at a bowling alley that night, and that causing harm to an other person is against her nature.

"That's all I had to drink, your honor," Moore said, addres sing Judge Kathleen Ann Sutula in Cuya hoga County Com mon Pleas Court. "I don't know what happened that night."

She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 percent, about twice the legal limit in Ohio.

Sutula didn't believe Moore's story and gave her the maximum punishment that state guidelines allow.

The judge chastised the defendant for a lack of remorse and for living so recklessly with a checkered driving record although Moore had no prior felony convictions.

Sutula defied the 5-foot, 285-pound woman to explain how she became so intoxicated on fewer than three drinks, or why she drove the wrong way for nearly 10 miles on interstates 71 and 90.

"Let no one walk out of here believing this was an accident," Sutula said. "This is the worst form of drunk-driving and vehicular homicide."

The judge said Moore required the maximum sentence "to protect the public."

Moore's attorney, James Hardiman, protested the judge's severity, citing similar cases of aggravated vehicular homicide where the sentences were a fraction of that imposed by Sutula.

"You may take that up on appeal," the judge responded.

A large delegation of family members and friends of the victims appeared in court. Several delivered tributes to the departed and asked the judge to give Moore the maximum.

"Our life has been shattered and will never be what it once was," said Rita Bliss, Jeff's mother. "I feel an ache so deep inside . . . just helplessness."

Moore one day will be able to return to her children and watch her grandchildren grow up, but "We won't," Rita Bliss said.

In a letter to the court, Ann Marie Bliss's mother, Jan Roalofs, said her family's sentiment is more of sorrow than anger, although she asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence.

Moore offered sympathies to the families.

"I wish there was something I could do to reverse what happened, but I can't," she said.

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link: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...5042137250.xml

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will see if I can find one on the man probably have to wait until tomorrow.
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