KCBD, NewsChannel 11 Lubbock |Santa Fe lawyer gets 7 years in pedestrian's death
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Associated Press - November 13, 2009 6:15 PM ET
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A Santa Fe attorney has been sentenced to a 7-year prison term in the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian last November.
Carlos Fierro was convicted last month of vehicular homicide in the death of 46-year-old William Tenorio of San Felipe Pueblo. Jurors deadlocked on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
In a plea deal Friday, state District Judge Michael Vigil ruled the vehicular homicide charge was not a serious violent offense. It means Fierro won't have to serve 85 percent of a 6-year jail term under the law.
In exchange, Fierro won't appeal his conviction and agreed to drop his motion for a new trial.
Prosecutor Angela "Spence" Pacheco says Fierro's lawyers approached her about the deal.
Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican, http://www.sfnewmexican.com
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