for those that wondered what ever happened with this.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/nyregion/15firefighter.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA volunteer firefighter from New Jersey who struck and killed an off-duty New York City police officer with his sport utility vehicle was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday in State Supreme Court. The firefighter, Robert Derian, 25, of Saddle River, was also found guilty on four lesser charges.
Prosecutors said that Mr. Derian’s blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit for driving at the time of the accident in August 2006.
They accused Mr. Derian of road rage, saying an argument had seemingly caused him to go after Eric Concepcion, 29, the officer who was killed as he rode his motorcycle on the Henry Hudson Parkway.
Mr. Derian’s lawyers had argued that the crash was an accident.
Mr. Derian will be sentenced on May 28. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
“It was a long time coming,” Mr. Concepcion’s cousin Lucria Ortiz, 32, said in court. “The family is definitely happy with the verdict.”
Hours before Mr. Derian was found guilty, another man was sentenced for killing a police officer while driving drunk. The man, Kevin Casado, received two to six years in prison for hitting the idling motorcycle of Officer Alexander Felix with his minivan. Mr. Casado pleaded guilty in March to vehicular manslaughter in the accident, which happened in Inwood last July.
