YOUNGSTOWN — Jayce Klink, 24, of Poland, who began serving her one-year prison sentence about 15 weeks ago, next will have a hearing to determine whether she gets out of prison early in a wrong-way fatal crash Dec. 2, 2020, on Interstate 680.

The hearing is set for 11:30 a.m. Aug. 10. Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court set Klink’s early-release hearing date.

Klink filed for the early release a couple of months ago, saying she was eligible, but prosecutors filed a response that opposed her early release.

The crash killed Tiara Whatley, 35, and badly injured her sister, the driver of their car, Sharenda Whatley, 34, both Youngstown.

Klink traveled a short distance onto I-680 North in the wrong direction before she encountered vehicles coming at her. A witness said he saw Klink swerve to avoid two cars, but hit the third one — the Whatley vehicle. Both cars sustained heavy front-end damage, a Youngstown police report states.

Klink pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, a third-degree felony and aggravated vehicular assault, a fourth-degree felony, and could have gotten up to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Klink’s attorney, Lou DeFabio, noted in his filing an offender such as Klink is eligible for early release by the judge, called judicial release, “at any time after the offender is delivered to a state correctional institution.”

Klink “has been adequately punished for her crime” and has no previous criminal record, and she had no new charges during the two years she was free on bond following the crash, DiFabio stated. Klink has a young son and is custodial parent for him. She also has maintained employment “throughout her adult life.”

Marty Hume, a county assistant prosecutor, meanwhile, stated in his filing that Donofrio sentenced Klink to one year in prison “after listening to family members of the decedent and the surviving victim of defendant’s criminal conduct, as well as the arguments of defense counsel and the victim’s statement.”

Hume added: “Based upon the serious nature of defendant’s conduct in recklessly driving the wrong way on a major highway, causing death and permanent injury to others, the state asks the court to deny defendant’s motion for early release.”

DeFabio said in May he had spoken with Klink, who has told him she has “learned her lesson,” and “never wants to be in a position of serving a prison term in the future.”