{"id":467430,"date":"2026-10-16T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:58:08","slug":"drunk-driver-who-killed-texas-college-student-learns-fate-with-unusual-parole-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467430\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk driver who killed Texas college student learns fate \u2014 with unusual parole terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drunk driver was sentenced to seven years behind bars for fatally plowing down a college student and seriously injuring another in Texas in 2023<\/a> \u2014 and must return to jail for 15 days annually, including Christmas, her birthday and the victims\u2019 birthdays, for a decade after she\u2019s released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lynlee Pollis, 30, was convicted of intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault for killing Southern Methodist University student Honor Wallace and leaving the college student\u2019s pal Catherine \u201cCeCe\u201d Solberg seriously injured in a drunken crash in Dallas in September 2023, The Dallas Morning News<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lynlee Pollis, 30, was sentenced to seven years behind bars for fatally plowing down a college student and seriously injuring another in 2023. Dallas County Jail<\/p>\n

Southern Methodist University student Honor Wallace, 19, was killed in the drunken crash. University Liggett School<\/p>\n

In addition to being locked up for seven years, Pollis must serve 10 years of probation after her release and must report to jail for 15 days each year she\u2019s on probation, State District Judge Jennifer Balido ordered.<\/p>\n

The 15 days include the three days around both Wallace\u2019s and Solberg\u2019s birthdays, Pollis\u2019 own birthday, Christmas and the date of the tragic drunken collision.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were so drunk and you wouldn\u2019t admit it,\u201d Solberg\u2019s father Bobby said to Pollis during his victim impact statement. \u201cYou made us sit through this [trial] for three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen no personal accountability from you,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n

Wallace\u2019s father echoed similar sentiments when it was his turn, slamming Pollis\u2019 \u201cselfishness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou took the most precious gift from us through your selfishness,\u201d David Wallace said. \u201cOwn it. Own what you did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pollis\u2019 sentence was handed down Wednesday after the jury deliberated for around three hours at the end of an emotional two-and-a-half-week trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Testing showed Pollis had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.294% hours after the crash \u2014 nearly four times the legal limit for driving in Texas. Lynlee Pollis\/Facebook<\/p>\n

The reckless driver was speeding at 67 mph in a 35 mph zone through a red traffic light in Dallas when she slammed into Wallace and Solberg\u2019s vehicle, the outlet previously reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Wallace, 19, was pronounced dead at the hospital, and Solberg, who was in the passenger seat, was left with a broken collarbone and traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n

A friend of the college students emotionally testified to the horror of seeing Solberg at the hospital in a neck brace covered in Wallace\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t get the sight of all that blood out of my mind,\u201d Haley Keller said. \u201cWherever I looked, I saw Honor\u2019s blood all over CeCe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were so drunk and you wouldn\u2019t admit it,\u201d Catherine Solberg\u2019s father Bobby said during his victim impact statement. Steve Pollis\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Pollis suffered a fractured ankle and a bump on her forehead. She had her dog, a husky named Tequila, in the car with her, but the pup was unharmed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was no accident. This was no mistake,\u201d prosecutor Andrew James said during closing arguments. \u201cIt was predictable consequences of the defendant\u2019s choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blood tests showed Pollis had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.294% hours after the crash<\/a> \u2014 nearly four times the legal limit for driving in Texas.<\/p>\n

Pollis was also ordered to serve 10 years of probation after her release and must report to jail for 15 days each year she\u2019s on probation. Lynlee Pollis\/Facebook<\/p>\n

However, Pollis\u2019 defense attorneys agreed that she was speeding and ran a red light but argued she was not drunk and that the blood alcohol evidence was unreliable because of issues with how it was collected, stored and tested.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her defense team asked the jury to give the now 30-year-old probation because she had no prior felony convictions \u2014 but James argued probation was \u201ccompletely inappropriate\u201d given her reckless actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrison is where you put the worst of the worst,\u201d defense attorney Scott Palmer said in his closing argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is a good person who made a terrible decision. She is going to live in that hell for the rest of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drunk driver was sentenced to seven years behind bars for fatally plowing down a college student and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13530,102,21515,2899,19630,127784,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-467430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-car-crashes","tag-dallas","tag-drunk-driving","tag-prisons","tag-probation","tag-sentences","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}