BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — The driver who struck and killed young rising cycling champion Magnus White is being considered for a halfway house just months into her four-year prison sentence.

The development comes in a case Denver7 has been following since July 2023 , and more than seven months after Yeva Smilianska was found guilty of vehicular homicide by a jury of her peers.

Smilianska was sentenced to four years in prison in June of this year.

In a letter obtained by Denver7 Friday, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) informed both Jill and Michael White, Magnus’ parents, that Smilianska was being referred, per Colorado law, for placement in a halfway house — a residential facility where inmates are transferred before being fully released into their communities.

The lett

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