Defense Claims Woman Wasn't Drunk While Driving Wrong Way On I-25

DENVER (CBS4) - Closing arguments were held Friday in the trial of a woman charged with killing a young mother in a drunk driving accident on Interstate 25.

Victoria Berry is charged with vehicular homicide involving DUI. The accident happened in May 2011 while she drove the wrong way on I-25.

The case will go to the jury on Monday.

Prosecutors said that Berry had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. The defense said she wasn't drunk and didn't kill anybody.

Berry had been at a bachelorette party at the Candlelight Tavern. Police said she got in her car and proceeded to enter I-25 by way of an exit ramp, going the wrong way. Lilly Duncan was driving in the proper direction when her car was stuck and she was killed.

Duncan's friends gathered outside the courthouse on Friday.

"My best friend was killed by a drunk driver last year and we're hoping that we can have some type of victory with a good outcome on Lilly's behalf," Kacy Roberts said.

"I have a friend who's gone and she can't be here to speak for herself," Jen VanOster said. "(We) just hope that maybe justice will come out of this and that people will realize that it doesn't pay to drink and drive."

Duncan's mother has been speaking out about the dangers of drinking and driving and wants to see mandatory jail time for first offenders.

Berry's lawyer told the court to use reason over emotion and said her blood-shot eyes in the mug shot may have been from crying that night, not from alcohol.

The defense was trying to create a reasonable doubt by trying to chip away at the prosecution's case without offering any viable alternative to what happened.

Duncan left behind a grieving daughter.