LAKEPORT— In accordance with a CHP report, Keilah Marie Coyle, 22, of Novato, was driving south in a Ford F-150 truck shortly after 11 p.m. that drifted over Freeway 29’s stable double yellow strains, hitting a GMC van head-on that was headed north – killing two Clearlake residents.
The defendant just lately appeared at a sentencing listening to and she or he was not in custody.
The Court docket learn and regarded the report and advice of the Lake County Probation Officer, additionally listening to protection counsel, Tim Hodson’s, oral argument as to the defendant’s utility to be granted probation.
The defendant retained legal professional Tim S. Hodson as her counsel in March of final yr.
Probation was granted and it’s the judgement of the Court docket that Coyle is responsible of two felony violations – Gross Vehicular Manslaughter with vessel whereas intoxicated and DUI with Alcohol whereas inflicting harm.
The imposition of sentencing has been suspended because the defendant has been positioned on formal probation for a interval of three years, which is topic to a number of phrases and circumstances.
A few of the phrases and circumstances are intervals of digital and alcohol monitoring, elevated therapy/counseling packages, elevated neighborhood service hours, underneath the supervision of a probation officer, conduct herself as a regulation abiding citizen, not violate any legal guidelines, abide by all orders of the Court docket, won’t depart the State of California with out written permission from the probation officer and extra.
The scene of the automobile accident was Freeway 29 close to Bar cross Street north of Middletown.
Each Cassandra Elaine Rolicheck, 53, and Miguel Maciel Dominguez, 47, of Clearlake, had been pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Coyle was arrested on the scene for allegations of driving underneath the affect.
Throughout the settlement convention earlier this yr, Important pled no contest to Gross Vehicular Manslaughter with vessel whereas intoxicated and DUI with Alcohol whereas inflicting harm. Each expenses are felonies.
The Individuals state the Blood Alcohol Degree (BAC) of the defendant was .1515.
The matter had been referred to the Lake County Probation Division for the preparation of a pre-sentencing report.
On a movement of the Individuals, the Court docket ordered the steadiness of the fees and any associated allegations dismissed within the curiosity of justice and the Individuals’s perception that the remaining counts couldn’t be confirmed past an affordable doubt on the time of trial.
Subsequently, the next expenses had been dismissed – two counts of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter, one depend of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter with vessel whereas intoxicated, two counts of Vehicular Manslaughter – Gross Negligence and one depend of DUI – Alcohol whereas inflicting harm.
In October of final yr, the defendant was not in custody, showing by way of zoom for an arraignment on an data listening to.
Coyle had been charged with two counts of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter whereas intoxicated, two counts of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter with Vessel whereas intoxicated, two counts of Vehicular Manslaughter with Gross Negligence and two counts of DUI – Alcohol whereas inflicting harm.
Throughout a listening to final March the Court docket was inclined to refer the difficulty of bail to the Lake County Probation Division for a Bail Research. Counsel was in settlement with a bail research.
Throughout a Bail Overview Listening to final April, Mr. Hodson declared a doubt as to the defendant’s capacity to face trial. The Court docket ordered the proceedings suspended and ordered Dr. Taylor Fithian be appointed to guage the defendant and put together a report relating to the defendant’s competency to face trial.
Upon inquiry, protection counsel suggested the Court docket that the defendant was not contesting a discovering of incompetence.
Final Might, throughout a Physician’s Report Listening to, the Court docket had obtained, learn and regarded the Physician’s Report.
Primarily based upon the proof, the Court docket discovered that the defendant was competent to face trial. Prison proceedings had been ordered reinstated.
At the moment, the defendant entered a Not Responsible Plea to all counts of the Grievance, denying the particular allegations.
Throughout a preliminary listening to, witness testimony was heard, and a number of other of the Individuals’s reveals had been introduced, similar to post-mortem studies of each victims, a automobile inspection report, two factual diagrams of the scene and a Forensic Alcohol evaluation, the matter was argued and submitted.
The Court docket discovered that the felony violations had been dedicated and there was enough trigger to imagine that the defendant is responsible, thereof, and ordered she be held to reply to the fees.
Throughout an earlier listening to the Court docket took up the defendant’s movement to scale back bail and/or launch defendant on her signed promise to look.
A letter of admittance from Salvation Military residential therapy program was obtained into proof as Defendant’s Exhibit A.
Mr. Hodson said the defendant doesn’t have any prior convictions and is low/no threat to public security if she is in a residential therapy.
The defendant was launched on a written promise to look with situation(s), understanding and accepting the conditional launch.
Throughout a Bail Overview Listening to in June of final yr, the defendant requested to be launched to a Residential Therapy Program. Mr. Hodson requested the bail overview listening to be continued at the moment so as to permit time for a program to be recognized.
