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Supreme Court Denies Former Officer's Appeal

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2011 file photo David Bisard arrives for a court hearing in Indianapolis. The suspended Indianapolis police officer was convicted Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, of driving drunk and causing a 2010 crash that killed a motorcyclist and seriously injured two other people.
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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2011 file photo David Bisard arrives for a court hearing in Indianapolis. The suspended Indianapolis police officer was convicted Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, of driving drunk and causing a 2010 crash that killed a motorcyclist and seriously injured two other people.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a former Indianapolis police officer convicted of killing one motorcyclist and seriously injuring two others while driving drunk in his police cruiser.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced the state's highest court had denied transfer of David Bisard's case from the Indiana Court of Appeals. The appeals court in March had upheld Bisard's 2013 convictions on nine counts of drunken driving, reckless homicide and criminal recklessness stemming from the 2010 crash.

Curry says Bisard has now exhausted all of his appeals.

Bisard is serving a 16-year prison sentence.

Bisard was on-duty with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when his cruiser plowed into motorcycles stopped at a traffic light on the city's east side.

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