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Before a Wake County jury found her guilty Friday of killing a Raleigh man in a 2024 crash, Delisha Milon had faced more than 30 traffic-related charges and citations in her life.
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Milon, 41, of Warrenton was driving a Ford Edge SUV on Creedmoor Road just before 6 a.m. June 11, 2024, when she veered into the opposite lane of travel and hit a Dodge Charger, according to court documents.
The driver of the Charger, 26-year-old Carnell Marable, died at the scene.
Marable, a father and machine operator at a shingle manufacturer in Granville County, lived in Raleigh with his mother, public records indicate. The crash happened on what Google Maps shows could have been his commute to work.
Milon didn’t have a valid driver’s license at the time of the crash, according to court documents. It’s not clear when her license was first revoked, but court records show she’d been accumulating traffic-related citations and charges since 2006.
All told, by the time of Milon’s sentencing Friday, excluding the crash with Marable, she’d been convicted or found responsible 18 times of traffic-related charges and citations, according to court records. At least 13 other citations and charges against her had been dismissed by prosecutors for reasons either not specified in court records or because she complied with unspecified special conditions.
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After pleading not guilty to a charge of misdemeanor death by vehicle and citations for not having a driver’s license, driving left of center and failing to wear a seatbelt, Milon was found guilty of all charges except failing to wear a seatbelt. That last citation was dismissed because, as an infraction, it didn’t fall under the Wake County Superior Court’s jurisdiction, court documents state.
Superior Court Judge Hoyt Tessener sentenced Milon to a minimum of 20 days in jail and a maximum of 150 days in Wake County’s misdemeanant confinement program, according to court records.
Though court records clarifying Tessener’s reasoning weren’t available as of Monday morning, that’s a harsher sentence than is typical for misdemeanor death by vehicle convictions in North Carolina. As The News & Observer reported in one such case last fall, many defendants in misdemeanor death by vehicle cases in the state only serve a day in jail.
Marable’s mother filed a wrongful death suit against Milon and her parents, who owned the car she was driving, this June in Wake County. That lawsuit remains pending as of Monday morning, and the attorney representing Marable’s estate couldn’t be reached for comment.
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