I cannot believe the sentence this judge's daughter got for her crime. A young man is dead. Let us think about the real victim and his family. My prayers go out to this young man's family. Did the jury really send a message to this drunken young lady? You be the judge.
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A jury Monday sentenced the daughter of a Harris County judge to eight years probation and fined her $10,000 for the intoxication manslaughter death of her 19-year-old boyfriend.
By law, 20-year-old Elizabeth Shelter must serve 120 days in jail before her probation begins.
If she fails to meet the terms of the probation, she will be sent to prison for five years.
The sentence came just hours after a jury convicted Shelton.
As the guilty verdict was read, Shelton remained stoic. Her family was visibly shaken.
Lawyers for Shelton, 20, did not deny that she was drunk when she crashed her SUV into the back of a box truck last year. They blamed the accident on the truck driver, saying he made an illegal lane change.
The truck driver denied the allegations.
Shelton's boyfriend, Matthew McNiese, was killed instantly in the crash and neary beheaded.
Witnesses said he was hanging out of the SUV's window before the crash.
Tests showed Shelton's blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit that night.
Witnesses testified that Shelton cursed at the ER nurse who was taking her blood at the hospital after the crash. She
told the nurse that her father, Pat Shelton, was a judge.
Shelton will be allowed to finish out the semester before reporting to jail on December 20.
She could have received up to 20 years in prison for the crime.
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