BOULDER, Colo. — A referral that could have allowed the woman convicted of killing a teen cyclist to move to a halfway house has been revoked because she’s facing new felony charges.
Magnus White was killed in July 2023 when Yeva Smilianska hit him while he was cycling along Highway 119. White was training to compete in the Junior Men’s Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Championships at the time of the crash. He was set to start his senior year of high school.
Last April, a jury found Smilianska guilty of vehicular homicide. She was later sentenced to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. However, under Colorado law, defendants sentenced to state prison are eligible for community corrections 16 months before their parole eligibility date. Smilianska was scheduled to be parole-eligible in April 2027. That made her eligible for a halfway house as of Dec. 1, 2025…