One San Diego man who had accumulated several convictions for DUI was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after his latest arrest, arising out of the death of a pedestrian in Pacific Beach, California, with whom the driver collided earlier this year.

"It was an accident, it wasn't murder - I promise you," the man said to the victim's family and friends in court. "I didn't even see her."

In addition to the San Diego DUI charge, Alan Lester Mabrey was convicted of second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and hit-and-run causing death, after he allegedly collided with 24-year-old Emily Cathleen Dowdy. The woman, who worked as a shift supervisor at Starbucks, was hit as she crossed the street on February 7, 2009.