ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A 40-year-old upstate New York motorist has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing a bicyclist during a high-speed chase from police, then driving on with the man wedged in a ladder rack on his pickup truck.
Pablo Cruz of Schenectady hit 45-year-old Paul Merges on an Albany street around 1 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2012. Police said Cruz led police on a two-county chase at speeds of almost 100 mph with Merges trapped on the vehicle.
An Albany jury convicted him in July of second-degree murder, second-degree vehicular manslaughter and several other lesser crimes.
District Attorney P. David Soares says he was sentenced Friday in Albany County Court.
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