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Colorado Supreme Court upholds 29-year DUI vehicular homicide sentence, declines to classify crime as ‘grave or serious’

The court ruled DUI vehicular homicide lacks required intent for automatic serious crime status, affecting proportionality review of Kari Mobley Kennedy's 29-year sentence.

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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 29-year prison sentence for a woman who killed a man and injured two others while driving drunk west of Lyons seven years ago. In the same ruling, the justices declined to add DUI vehicular homicide to the handful of crimes that are automatically considered serious under a unique legal designation that makes it more difficult for people to challenge those sentences as disproportionate. The justices t…

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Colorado Supreme Court upholds 29-year DUI vehicular homicide sentence, declines to classify crime as ‘grave or serious’

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 29-year prison sentence for Kari Mobley Kennedy, the woman who killed a man and injured two others while driving drunk west of Lyons seven years ago.

·Denver, United States
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Denver Post broke the news in Denver, United States on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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