{"id":740680,"date":"2025-11-25T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=740680"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:19:32","slug":"josh-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=740680","title":{"rendered":"Josh Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Published November 25, 2025 05:19PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The driver found guilty in the death of cyclist Magnus White could be moved to a halfway house after serving just several months of her four-year sentence in prison.<\/p>\n

In April, a jury found Yeva Smilianska guilty of one count of reckless vehicular homicide for striking and killing the up and coming racer on July 29, 2023 in the Boulder, Colorado area.<\/p>\n

BOULDER, CO \u2013 MARCH 31: Yeva Smilianska is pictured in the courtroom surrounded by her lawyers inside the courtroom at Boulder County Courthouse in Boulder, Colorado on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Colorado that verdict carries a possible penalty of 2-6 years behind bars, with Smilianska ultimately receiving a four-year sentence, in June.<\/p>\n

Now just five months later, the White family has received a letter from the Colorado Department of Corrections stating that she could be transferred from state prison to community corrections.<\/p>\n

The letter states \u201cThe Victim Services Unit (VSU) has been informed that the above named offender is being referred, according to Colorado Law, for consideration of placement in a community corrections program (halfway house).\u201d<\/p>\n

BOULDER, CO \u2013 MARCH 31: Michael White, right, and his wife Jill, center, listen to the opening arguments during trail of Yeva Smilianska inside the courtroom at Boulder County Courthouse in Boulder, Colorado on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

White\u2019s family has always understood that Smilianska would likely not serve the full four years, however the prospect of less than a year of prison time came as a surprise. Smilianska is not eligible for parole until April of 2027, but Colorado law allows an offender, unless convicted of first-degree murder, to apply for community corrections 16 months before parole eligibility. In this case that means December 2025.<\/p>\n

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Parole is not imminent, but if Smilianska is moved to a halfway house she may also be eligible for release to another program with far less supervision. The same letter goes on to state that \u201cOffenders placed in community corrections may progress to the Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) to be monitored electronically and reside outside of the halfway house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Magnus White\u2019s death, his family has founded The White Line Foundation, an organization aimed at enacting \u201ca fundamental transformation of our driving culture where careless and reckless behavior becomes unacceptable.\u201d Today Jill and Michael White released the following statement through The White Line Foundation Instagram page.<\/p>\n

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Our son Magnus was killed by a reckless driver. The judge sentenced her to four years in prison. But last week, we learned she\u2019s already eligible for a halfway house after only three months in a state prison. Everyone in that courtroom heard \u201cfour years.\u201d A four-year sentence should mean four years.<\/p>\n

Many don\u2019t know that dangerous drivers who kill are eligible for parole in most states after serving less than half of their sentence. This is unacceptable. Families deserve real accountability, not legal fine print that minimizes the death of a child.<\/p>\n

These are NOT accidents\u2014they are crashes. Crashes caused not only by a driver\u2019s reckless, negligent choices, but by a system that refuses to treat these deaths seriously.<\/p>\n

This is why we\u2019re fighting to change the law. Road violence is rising, and until states treat killing someone with a car as the horrific crime it is, more families will be shattered.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jill and Michael White<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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