Fourteen months after a fatal motorcycle accident and following a trial which only took a jury 3 1/2 hours to decide, a sentence of sorts has been handed down to the driver who plowed into biker Anita Zaffke.

Aside from the violent manner Lora Hunt rammed into Zaffke while she was stopped at a traffic light, the knowledge that the sentenced driver was painting her nails rather than watching the road shocked many.

A judge in Lake County, Illinois handed down a sentence of 18 months of periodic imprisonment concurrent to 30 months of probation.

“She’s been remorseful. I do believe she would never get in a car again and perform the acts she did before,” Judge Fred Foreman said.

It was over fourteen months ago on May 2nd, 2009 when 49 year old Lora Hunt ran into Anita Zaffke (pictured right) who was sitting on her motorcycle at a stoplight in Lake Zurich, Ill., about 40 miles north of Chicago. According to testimony and evidence presented during the trial, Hunt hit the sitting motorcycle while going 50 mph with recorded data from the Chevrolet Impala showing the car did not slow down at all before the impact.

During the trial, Hunt said she'd been trying to make herself look presentable for a dinner date with her daughter but had applied only a couple of strokes of nail polish before putting the bottle down.

Although Police stated Hunt admitted she was painting her fingernails at the time of the incident, during the trial she testified she had stopped painting her nails before the fatal crash. Her defense lawyer argued Hunt's actions were negligent, like eating a sandwich or talking on a cellphone in a car, and not reckless.

But prosecutor Mike Mermel countered it would be a mistake to compare painting nails while driving to using a cell phone or another distraction during the trial in Lake County Circuit Court.

"She might as well have been in the back seat making a sandwich," he said, arguing that Hunt acted recklessly.

The trial only lasted two days with the jury of eight women and four men coming to its decision within 3 1/2 hours, finding Hunt criminally reckless and guilty of reckless homicide.

When the verdict was read in May 2010, Hunt reportedly showed no emotion when the jury read the verdict.

Hunt (pictured left), who had a clean driving record prior to the crash claimed during the trial that she never saw the 56-year-old Zaffke stopping ahead of her at the intersection.

As well as the imprisonment and probation Hunt will perform 240 hours of public service. Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Mermel asked the court to impose the maximum sentence of five years.

"Because the defendant wanted pretty nails, Anita Zaffke had to die," Mermel said. "She had literally turned two tons of glass and steel into a guided missile, and Anita Zaffke was her target."

According to reports, the sentence imposed only requires Hunt to spend her nights in jail and will be allowed to leave during the day for work, counseling and community service.

"I live every day thinking about how Anita had her life taken away from us due to someone's vanity and recklessness," Zaffke's husband Greg told the judge during the sentencing hearing, "I miss Anita with everything in my soul."