Original Story: detroit.cbslocal.com
HOWELL (AP) — A Michigan man was sentenced Friday to 25 to 50 years in prison for the fatal shooting of another motorist during a road rage incident. A Grand Rapids wrongful death lawyer is following this story closely.
Livingston County Judge Miriam Cavanaugh told Martin Zale that his encounter with Derek Flemming was a “shooting waiting to happen” and that Zale went about “almost looking for conflict.”
“If it hadn’t been Mr. Flemming, it would have been someone else,” Cavanaugh said.
Flemming was shot when he confronted Zale about aggressive driving near Howell, northwest of Detroit. A Detroit wrongful death lawyer represents clients in wrongful death and negligent accident cases.
Zale, of Marion Township, told jurors he felt threatened as he sat in his pickup truck at a traffic light in Livingston County’s Genoa Township. He insisted he shot in self-defense.
The prosecutor said Zale should have kept the window up or driven away.
A jury in May rejected first-degree murder but convicted Zale of second-degree murder. A Cleveland wrongful death attorney is reviewing the details of this case.
“I called you a monster the day after it happened and my mind hasn’t changed,” Derek Flemming’s mother, Elaine, told Zale Friday before he was sentenced.
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