Overview
- An Orange County judge accepted Allgeo’s no-contest plea to aggravated battery and dismissed the second-degree murder charge.
- She was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by probation during a Thursday court hearing.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier had criticized the prosecution and later praised the dropped murder count as consistent with self-defense.
- The December confrontation began after Allgeo struck another vehicle on East Colonial Drive and ended with the death of 42-year-old Mihail Tsvetkov.
- Court descriptions of surveillance footage indicate Tsvetkov opened Allgeo’s car door and beat her before she fired her weapon.