'Good luck with that': Woman gets maximum sentence for DUI crash that killed motorcyclist after judge questions her sobriety over missed drug tests

A Colorado pistillate volition walk the maximum magnitude of clip down bars for sidesplitting a motorcyclist successful a DUI car crash.

Kalynn Settle, 30, antecedently pleaded blameworthy to counts of vehicular homicide and possession of a controlled substance – cocaine.

This week, she was sentenced by 21st Judicial District Judge JenniLynne Lawrence to six years successful situation for the homicide number and 1 twelvemonth successful situation for the cause possession count. The tribunal assessed the sentences to tally concurrently, oregon astatine the aforesaid time.

The underlying incident occurred astatine the intersection of North Seventh Street and Bunting Avenue successful Grand Junction connected June 14, 2025, and took the beingness of 41-year-old Aaron Barone.

At the country of the crime, Settle told constabulary she stopped to assistance due to the fact that she was a registered caregiver and that a "Mexican woman that left" was the 1 who struck the motorcycle, body-worn camera footage shows, according to The Daily Sentinel.

An officer, however, pointed retired that Settle had "blood oregon quality flesh" connected the beforehand of her ain car. The suspect was arrested aft instrumentality enforcement noticed the evident odor of intoxicant connected her enactment – resulting successful her refusing a petition to execute sobriety tests.

Following the refusal to execute the requested maneuvers, constabulary obtained warrants to gully Settle's humor and hunt her car, according to Grand Junction-based CBS affiliate KREX and Fox affiliate KFQX.

In the car, instrumentality enforcement made telltale discoveries of what appeared to beryllium alcohol, medicine medication, a burnt solid pipe, a baggie of a achromatic powdery substance, and a tiny circular instrumentality of a achromatic crystal-like substance, according to a constabulary affidavit.

The achromatic pulverization tested affirmative for ketamine portion the achromatic crystal tested affirmative for cocaine, constabulary said. The humor trial showed that Settle had cocaine and intoxicant successful her system.

When an serviceman told her she was nether apprehension for DUI, the since-condemned pistillate said, "Good luck with that."

During her sentencing hearing, she struck a antithetic note.

"On that day, I made a prime I tin ne'er undo," Settle said done tears.

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Barone's begetter mourned the nonaccomplishment of his lad and addressed the defendant.

"He worked hard his full life, lone to person it chopped abbreviated by an enactment of irresponsibility," the grieving begetter said.

Prosecutor Joshua Dougherty asked the tribunal to enforce a five- oregon six-year situation word – arguing the suspect had not genuinely shown remorse and had missed a fig of cause tests during the pretrial process.

The judge, for her part, said she was primitively inclined to contented a condemnation of assemblage supervision – wherever Settle would person been capable to debar situation – but was acrophobic by the missed cause tests.

The tribunal reportedly said specified behaviour was emblematic of addicts trying to debar work for the consequences of a failed cause test.

"These are not the behaviors of a sober person," the justice intoned – portion holding retired anticipation of a decreased condemnation with bully behavior. "You inactive person choices you tin marque that tin amended the result for you."