PEORIA, Ill. – A Washington woman who was originally sentenced to prison after causing an accident where a man on a bicycle was killed, will not go to prison after all.
Peoria County Court records indicate a judge has revised the sentence of Destinee Cole, 23. Instead of four years in prison, she will now serve 180 days in jail with credit for 83 days already served in jail, after pleading guilty to Aggravated Driving Under the Influence.
Cole was arrested in June of 2021 after the SUV she was driving allegedly hit Corey Griffin, 33, near Waverly and Kellogg in West Peoria, as she rolled through a stop sign, allegedly with marijuana in her system.
Griffin was pronounced dead at a Peoria hospital.
The reduction in sentence means a defense motion to reconsider was successful.
