Admitting responsibility for the death of a Clovis family man, 27-year-old Perla Ibeth Vazquez told a packed courtroom Tuesday that she wanted to be held accountable for her actions, but insisted: “I am not a murderer.”

Her plea didn’t sway Judge Hilary Chittick.

“This was a murder,” Chittick said bluntly in Fresno County Superior Court before sentencing Vazquez to 15 years to life in prison for getting drunk and causing a crash on Highway 168 in Fresno that killed 54-year-old Frank Winslow in October 2011.

Chittick said a jury was correct last month when it found Vazquez guilty of second-degree murder, felony hit and run, and driving on a suspended license when she caused the fatal crash.

Aug. 16, 2014 — Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds announces that a Marietta man will spend five years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist that occurred in April 2013.

Damon Thomas Latuch, 28, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to homicide by vehicle in the first degree.

Assistant District Attorney Marty First said the evidence would show that Mr. Latuch had been out drinking at a bar with friends in the hours before the fatal crash on April 10, 2013, that he had been told at two different times in those hours that he was too drunk to drive, and that he had refused to let someone else drive.

A man convicted of his seventh DWI was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.

In May 2013, Burnet County officials say 46-year-old Terry Lynn Stevens was arrested for his seventh and last driving while intoxicated charge. He has a lengthy criminal record.

Wilkins continued to drive for two miles with Moreno, who was still alive, on her windshield

Doemel said he does not remember the events leading up to the crash and claimed Thursday that he had not been drinking, but instead had lapsed into a diabetic coma the night of the crash.

Seifert said she did not buy the argument.

“You knew what your medical condition was and yet you still drove,” Seifert said.