A Mount Horeb woman who admitted to drinking cognac and using cocaine before a crash on the interstate that killed a UW-Whitewater professor last June entered a no-contest plea today and was found guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.
Samantha J. Young, who turned 20 last Saturday, was northbound on I-90-39 near Edgerton in southern Dane County, driving at speeds estimated by witnesses to be up to 120 miles per hour, when her car rear-ended a northbound vehicle driven by UW-Whitewater professor of psychology Paula Poorman, 56, of Madison.