Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 15, 1993 TAG: 9310150200
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Stacey Lee Hann, 26, was charged with the latest drunken-driving offense in May, nine months after his release on the manslaughter charge.
On Wednesday, Hann was back in Roanoke County Circuit Court to face the possible revocation of the suspension of a three-year sentence from the manslaughter case.
Hann testified that he swore off alcohol after he crashed his motorcycle into a telephone pole and killed a woman who was riding with him in June 1991, according to Assistant Roanoke County Commonwealth's Attorney Bill Broadhurst.
Hann said he stayed sober until his girlfriend broke off their relationship earlier this year, Broadhurst said.
On May 27, Salem police stopped Hann on Virginia 419 and charged him with drunken driving. His blood-alcohol content was 0.15 percent, one and one-half times the legal limit, court records show.
Hann was found guilty and sentenced to 90 days in the Roanoke County-Salem Jail. His license was suspended for three years.
Wednesday, Circuit Judge Kenneth Trabue ordered Hann to serve two years of a three-year suspended sentence. He could be released after about four months.
It was unclear Thursday whether Hann had a valid driver's license when he was arrested for drunken driving in May. His license had been revoked in February 1992 as part of his sentence in the manslaughter case.
The victim in the motorcycle accident - 24-year-old Mildred E. "Mickey" Smith - suffered internal injuries and died a few hours later at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Court records show that Hann was twice convicted of drunken driving in the four months before the fatal accident.
by CNB