Boulder, Colo. ? A University of Colorado student has been convicted of vehicular homicide and driving drunk in the death of a music instructor from Kansas.

A jury convicted Jennifer Fiskum on Friday after four hours of deliberations.

The 20-year-old student faces a possible prison sentence of between four and 12 years for driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 36 on Nov. 3, 2002, and crashing into Randal Christy’s car.

“This is not going to make anything OK, but it makes me feel Randy didn’t die in vain,” said his mother, Wanda Jean Christy. “Hopefully she will never drive under the influence again.”

After four days of testimony, the jury of 12 was given the case late Thursday. It resumed deliberations Friday morning.

A hearing on a defense motion for a new trial was set for Feb. 11. Sentencing is scheduled for March 8.

Fiskum’s blood-alcohol content after the accident, authorities said, was as high as 0.169 — more than three times the legal limit to drive in the state. She got onto the highway going westbound in the eastbound lanes after a night of partying, prosecutor Anne Pignatiello said.

Fiskum’s attorneys argued that moments before the fatal accident, her BMW convertible slid on the icy road and crashed into a barrier, giving her a concussion and turning her car in the wrong direction.

Christy, a music professor at Wichita State University, was headed home after judging a singing competition in Boulder when the collision occurred. He was a talented musical performer and a devout Christian, his mother and brother, Mark, said. They traveled from Missouri to sit through the trial.

“We’ll never have Randy back with us, but at least we can move on as best we can now,” Mark Christy said.

Wanda Jean Christy said her older brother also was killed by a drunken driver. She said she didn’t want Fiskum’s life ruined by a lengthy prison sentence, but Christy thought Fiskum deserved time behind bars.

“She just murdered him as far as I’m concerned,” Christy said. “Just as if she would have taken a gun and shot him.”