Pinole: Woman sentenced to life again for 2016 DUI murder

Keri Cache, 39, was convicted a second time after her successful appeal in 2022.

MARTINEZ — After her successful appeal, a Sacramento woman was convicted a second time of murder in relation to a 2016 fatal drunk driving crash and sentenced —again — to life in prison, court records show.

Keri Cache, 39, was sentenced last year to 15 years to life in the 2016 crash that killed 28-year-old Jose Daza Jr., court records show. Though Cache’s sentencing was finalized, her case is still being heard in Contra Costa Court, as the parties settle on a figure for victim restitution.

Cache was first convicted in 2019 of murder and drunk driving. An appeals court overturned her conviction in 2022, ruling that she’d been unlawfully denied a request to switch from a public defender to a private attorney.

Daza was struck and killed on Interstate 80, near the Pinole Valley Road exit, after Cache sideswiped his car, authorities said. She was returning home from a P.F. Chang’s in Emervyille, where she’d reportedly been drinking.

Cache will be eligible for parole in 2026. She is currently incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, prison records show.