We Need More Judges Like This!

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A Texas woman who killed a college student in a drunken crash has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after which she will be forced to return to jail on Christmas and the birthdays of her victims for the following decade.

Lynlee Pollis, 30, killed Southern Methodist University student Honor Wallace, 19, and severely injured her friend Catherine 'CeCe' Solberg, 21, in a senseless car wreck in Dallas, Texas, in September 2023.

She was convicted earlier this month on intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault charges, and sentenced to seven years in prison plus 10 years' probation.

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After her release, Pollis will also serve an additional 15 days in jail each year of her probation, including her victims' birthdays, her own birthday, at Christmas, and the date of the crash.

The parents of Wallace and Solberg condemned Pollis at her sentencing hearing for putting their families through a grueling two-week trial, saying she could have spared them with a guilty plea.

'You were so drunk, and you wouldn't admit it,' Solberg's father Bobby told the court, per the Dallas Morning News.

'You made us sit through this trial... We've seen no personal accountability from you.'

Wallace's father said in his victim impact statement: 'You took the most precious gift from us through your selfishness. Own it. Own what you did.'

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Pollis's attorneys had requested she be sentenced to only probation because she had no prior criminal record, but James said such a sentence would be 'completely inappropriate' given the circumstances of the crash.

Friends of the victims laid into Pollis at her sentencing hearing, with Haley Keller saying she is still haunted by the sight of Solberg in hospital covered in Wallace's blood.

'I couldn’t get the sight of all that blood out of my mind,' Keller said. 'Wherever I looked I saw Honor’s blood all over CeCe.'

Pollis's father said his daughter had been filled with regret every day since the crash, and said she was on suicide watch for days after the incident as she wished she was the one who died.

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