Judge Jennifer Balido sentenced Lynlee Pollis to 7 years, then a decade of probation with jail every year, for the crash that killed Honor Wallace.

Wednesday's sentence is the judgment on two convictions, and the probation term is the part that does not end when the seven years do. Judge Jennifer Balido sent Lynlee Pollis to prison for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in the crash that killed Honor Wallace, then ordered ten years of probation that puts her back in jail 15 days a year on dates tied to the people in the other car. The defense asked for probation instead of prison. The court imposed both.

Fox News, the New York Post, and FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reported that State District Judge Jennifer Balido sentenced Lynlee Pollis, 30, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, to seven years in prison for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. FOX 4 reported a jury found her guilty of both counts on Monday, Oct. 12, at the end of a trial that ran about two and a half weeks. Fox News reported the case included roughly three hours of jury deliberation. The Dallas Morning News is the local account those outlets cite. The counts are the jury's findings. Wednesday is when the judge imposed the term.

The crash was Sept. 24, 2023, at Monticello Avenue and North Central Expressway, FOX 4 reported. Fox News, citing the Dallas Morning News, reported Honor Wallace, 19, was driving a Volkswagen Jetta through a green light when Pollis's Lexus SUV hit the car. Prosecution experts told the jury Pollis was traveling about 67 mph in a 35-mph zone and entered a light that had been red for at least five seconds, Fox News reported. Testing put her blood alcohol concentration at 0.294 percent, nearly four times Texas's 0.08 percent limit, Fox News and the New York Post reported. The New York Post reported the defense agreed she was speeding and ran the red light, and argued she was not intoxicated and that the blood result was unreliable because of how the sample was collected, stored, and tested. That dispute was for the jury. The jury convicted her.

Wallace, an SMU sophomore from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, who was studying English and Spanish, was pronounced dead at the hospital, FOX 4 and Fox News reported. Solberg, a passenger and friend, was injured. Fox News, citing the Dallas Morning News, reported a shoulder injury, a concussion, and a later traumatic brain injury diagnosis. FOX 4 and the New York Post reported a broken collarbone. At sentencing, Solberg's father, Bobby Solberg, told Pollis she had been too drunk to admit it and had made the families sit through a three-week trial with no personal accountability, Fox News and the New York Post reported. Wallace's father, David Wallace, told her she had taken the most precious thing the family had and to own what she did. The defense asked jurors for probation and pointed to the absence of a prior felony, the New York Post reported. Prosecutor Andrew James told the jury the crash was the predictable result of her choices and that probation was completely inappropriate. Judge Balido ordered the seven years, then 10 years of probation with 15 days in jail each year of that probation. Fox News, citing the Dallas Morning News, reported that some of those days fall on the victims' birthdays, Pollis's birthday, and the anniversary of the crash. The New York Post reported the 15 days include the days around both victims' birthdays, her birthday, Christmas, and the date of the collision.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Pollis was presumed innocent through trial. The Oct. 12 verdicts and Wednesday's judgment are the court's disposition of the intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault counts.