Man draws 10 years in fisherman's drowning

A Cook County Circuit Court judge has sentenced a Chicago man to 10 years for pushing an immigrant fisherman into Lake Michigan in an apparent prank that turned fatal.

Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said the sentence imposed Friday on John Haley was 10 years for involuntary manslaughter and three years for battery, to be served concurrently.

Prosecutors said Haley pushed 62-year-old Du Doan off a pier at Chicago's Montrose Harbor on Sept. 7, 2007, and ran away laughing as Doan flailed in the water.

Haley's lawyers said he didn't know the Vietnamese immigrant couldn't swim.

A month earlier, Haley had pulled the same prank on another elderly fisherman. That victim survived and testified at Haley's trial in October.