Hulsey sentenced to six years in state prison

BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER

Heather Lea Hulsey was sentenced yesterday to six years and four months in state prison for the July 2006 hit-and-run death of a 71-year-old Montecito doctor.
Hulsey, 21, sobbed uncontrollably as Superior Court Judge Frank Ochoa handed down the sentence and ordered that the woman be taken into custody immediately.


“I am very saddened by all of the events that have happened,” said Lincoln Shlensky, the doctor’s son. “There is no joy in the sentence that Ms. Hulsey received, but at the same time I feel justice has been served.”
Hulsey pleaded no contest to two felony charges last December in connection with Dr. Ronald Shlensky’s death. Shlensky was struck by Hulsey’s SUV while walking his dog on Knapp Drive in Montecito on July 27. He died the next day in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital from what an autopsy called “blunt-force type injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle.”
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