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The Wreck
This picture shows the passengers side of the truck he was driving.
The EMTs/ Firefighters are gathered around Michael.
The drivers side of Michaels truck.
More pictures of the truck
and Mark Cliftons story at
www.duipictures.com
click the truck to go there..
Mike Faulconers
prior record.
DISTRICT COURT
Court date: Feb. 3 , 1997
Judge John Paul Moore
Alcohol intoxication:
Carlton E. Fox, two days; Carlton E. Fox, $87.50; Joyce Martin, seven days; James W. Neal, six days; Michael S. Faulconer, 91.50; Rodney E. Banks, 87.50; Robert G. Jewell, $87.50; Curtis Dean Feltner, $87.50.

Disorderly conduct:
Michael Faulconer, 87.50; Rodney E. Banks, $25; Curtis Dean Feltner, $25; Holly Jenkins, $87.50, restitution.

Failure to appear:  
Michael Faulconer, two counts, 72.50 each; Charles Hudson, one day,


DISTRICT COURT
Court date: Nov. 3 , 1997
Judge John P. Moore
Driving under the influence:
Michael S. Faulconer, 14 days; Vernon L. Liggett, 21 days; Deanna K. McIntosh, $167.50.
DISTRICT COURT
Court date: May 20 , 1996
Judge John Paul Moore
Improper equipment
Michael S. Faulconer, $72.50; Charles D. McGuire, $10; Jackie J. Arnett, $97.50.


DISTRICT COURT
Court date: Sept. 4  
Judge William G. Clouse Jr.
Reckless driving:
Michael S. Faulconer, $97.50; Mack H. Fox II, traffic school; Paul A. Peterson, $247.50.
Newspaper articles from the Winchester Sun
  From the Winchester Sun Newspaper
 2/09/2001
  
A 16-year-old Winchester teen is dead and a Winchester man is charged with murder after a two-car collision on the Colby Road Thursday evening.
Michael S. Clifton, 803 Larry Court, was pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, shortly after 8 p.m., said Clark County Sheriff Gary Lawson.

By CATHY GILKEY

Sun Staff Writer

A 16-year-old Winchester teen is dead and a Winchester man is charged with murder after a two-car collision on the Colby Road Thursday evening.

Michael S. Clifton, 803 Larry Court, was pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, shortly after 8 p.m., said Clark County Sheriff Gary Lawson.

Mike S. Faulconer, 27, of 151 Wades Mill Road, was charged with murder, no insurance and driving on a suspended license this morning following Clifton's death, Lawson said.

According to Lawson, Clifton was driving his pickup truck westbound on the Colby Road, about a mile from the Bypass, when Faulconer, driving an SUV eastbound, apparently crossed the center line and struck Clifton's vehicle on the driver's side around 5 p.m. The impact spun the two vehicles around and nearly tore off the driver's side and roof of Clifton's vehicle, he said. Clifton was airlifted to the hospital from Clark Regional Medical Center.

Lawson said Faulconer's blood alcohol content tested higher than the legal limit following the crash and he was considered to be legally intoxicated. He was charged with first-degree assault with a vehicle but the charge was upgraded to murder after Clifton died, Lawson said.

Clifton was a sophomore at George Rogers Clark High School, Assistant Principal John Atkins confirmed. He said students were being informed of their classmate's death this morning.

The school psychologist and other professionals were at the high school this morning to meet with students, said GRCHS counselor Anne Hoffman.

It was the first traffic fatality of the year in Clark County.

Faulconer is being held at the Clark County Detention Center.
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, A lying tongue,
AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mishief,
A false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6: 16-19
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
--- Hubert van Zeller
  
  
 9/25/01
Sun staff report

The Clark County man charged with murder in the DUI-related death of a 16-year-old George Rogers Clark student pleaded guilty to amended charges in Clark Circuit Court Monday.

Mike Sean Faulconer, 27, of 151 Wades Mill Road, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and operating on a suspended license.

The commonwealth attorney recommended a 10-year sentence for the manslaughter count and six months for the traffic offense.

Faulconer was arrested Feb. 8 after he was involved in a crash on the Colby Road that killed Michael Clifton, 16, of 803 Larry Court. Faulconer was found to have been intoxicated at the time of the crash, court records show. Faulconer was originally charged with murder in Clifton's death.

He will be formally sentenced by Circuit Judge William T. Jennings Nov. 1.
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding
from GOD.....
and saying, " GOD IS HARD TO FIND"
----Fulton J. Sheen
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart ; and lean Not into thine own understandi
ng.
In all thy ways acknowledg
e him, and
he shall direct thy paths.
proverbs 3 : 5-6
MICHAEL S. CLIFTON

Services for Michael Shane Clifton, 16, Winchester, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday at W.R. Milward Mortuary-Southland, Lexington. Burial will be in the Lexington Cemetery.

Son of Angela and Steve Miller, Winchester, and Mark and Susan Clifton, Lexington, Clifton died Thursday at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on the Colby Road.

A sophomore at George Rogers Clark High School, he was a former member of the GRCHS football team and was a part-time employee at Subway.

Additional survivors include a brother, Jordan Miller, Lexington; three sisters, Stephanie Miller, Winchester, and Adrienne and Kelsey Clifton, Lexington; grandmothers, Rita Ferry, Winchester, and Trudy Clifton, Locust Grove, Va.; great-grandmother, Margerete Hirsch, Locust Grove, Va.; two aunts, an uncle and a cousin.

Friends may call 4-7 p.m. today.

Memorials may take the form of contributions to Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, P.O. Box 25162, Lexington 40524.

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