Zdeineb Juarez Calderon appears in a booking photo in April 2022. (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)
A California woman who killed an innocent man while driving drunk was sentenced to the maximum penalty in court on Monday.
Zdeineb Juarez Calderon, 24, was driving drunk for at least the second time in the same year when she ran a stop sign and then struck and killed Jeff Nazaroff, 59, in April 2022. Authorities say she had a .25 blood alcohol content on the day in question. Two months before that, she was arrested for drunk driving with a .30 BAC.
The defendant had not contested the charges against her.
Calderon had hoped the judge overseeing her sentencing would exert some measure of leniency for accepting blame — that did not occur. Instead, she will spend the next 10 years behind bars after pleading no contest to charges of gross vehicular manslaughter, driving with a suspended license, and driving while under the influence.
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The defendant was emotional during her sentencing hearing, according to a courtroom report by Fresno-based ABC affiliate KFSN .