DURHAM, N.C. (AP) â After killing an 89-year-old pedestrian last year, former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill womenâs basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell has appealed her guilty plea and received a more lenient sentence that will allow her to still drive.
Hatchellâs attorney told Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson on Monday that his client couldnât afford to lose her driverâs license for a year if the conviction were allowed to stand, WRAL-TV reported.
The former coach hit Betty Colby with her car in January 2020, causing Colby to hit her head on the pavement of a parking lot. She died two days later.