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Samantha Javors, the former CSU student who was sentenced to 12 years probation for the vehicular homicide of a 16-year-old boy, had her sentence changed.

Javors, 21, was sentenced Dec. 31 by Muscogee County Superior Court Judge Robert Johnston III to 12 years probation and a $5,000 fine. She was also sentenced to two years of home confinement for her guilty pleas to vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident, but that was changed by Johnston on Monday.

“The intent of the court was to enter a probated sentence, with community service and home confinement,” Johnston wrote in his order. “However, this is not possible because the court intended to take into consideration the fact that the defendant went to school at Kennesaw State and worked in the afternoon for a CPA five days a week.”

Johnston’s amended sentence keeps Javors on 12 years of probation and requires the $5,000 fine, but she is no longer on home confinement. Five hundred hours of community service was added to the sentence.

Background

Columbus police said Javors was leaving a bar with two friends around 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2007, as Lamar Tyrone Anderson and two of his friends were walking from Hollywood Connection along Miller Road near Bridgewater Road. Javors hit Anderson, and then drove away to a nearby apartment. Shortly after the Jeep Grand Cherokee Javors was believed to have been driving was towed from the apartment, police learned she and her father were at the Columbus Public Safety Center.

Frank Martin, Javors’ attorney, said the sentence correction is common sense. A choice had to be made by the judge, Martin said — community service or home confinement. It couldn’t be both.

“I think there’s more value to society and to her, too,” Martin said.

Judge amends vehicular homicide sentence of ex-CSU student