From Sandy Louey:
A 52-year-old Folsom woman was found guilty Tuesday in the hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old Granite Bay teenager who was walking on the side of Auburn Folsom Road.
Prosecutor Jeff Wilson said a Placer County jury found Anna Elvira Berset guilty on the charges of hit-and-run driving causing death and vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence.
Berset could face up to four years for the conviction. She is scheduled to be sentenced March 24, Wilson said.
Courtney Parker, a Granite Bay High School student and former cheerleader, was killed in the June 13, 2007 incident.
Wilson said he hoped the guilty verdict in the case will help the Parker family.
"I was glad to see they got the justice they deserved," he said.
Parker was with a group of girls at a fast-food restaurant on the night of the accident. The girls had left the restaurant, but she turned around to get the cell phone she had forgotten.
A vehicle struck her as she walked on the side of Auburn-Folsom Road near Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay. One of her friends found her on the side of the road.
A California Highway Patrol officer had testified during Berset's preliminary hearing that Berset called June 14 to report she had hit something on Auburn Folsom Road the previous night, but that it might have been a trash can or deer or perhaps a rock thrown at her by kids.
Officers who went to her home found damage to the hood, headlight and windshield of her 2002 Toyota RAV4.
Berset's son, Joshua Sanguinetti, spent four years in prison for a fatal-and-run in 1999 on Auburn Folsom Road.
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