A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Los Alamos woman of vehicular homicide and other charges in connection with the death of her husband nearly four years ago.

Penny Granich — who was probably at the wheel of Thomas Granich's pickup when it plunged off the edge of a 350-foot cliff in White Rock — could have faced up to six years in prison. The jury of four men and eight women spent a little more than four hours Friday and Tuesday before returning not guilty verdicts on the homicide count, as well as charges of drunken driving and reckless driving.

The crash occurred some time in the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2005 after the couple had been drinking at a Los Alamos bar. Assistant Attorney General Carlos Gutierrez alleged that Thomas Granich, 32, was riding in the passenger seat and died after he was ejected from the truck when it struck the cliff wall 150-feet down. Penny Granich survived because she was wearing a seatbelt.

Granich's attorneys alleged that nothing in the case was certain, and Granich told police she couldn't remember anything.

"It was a tragic accident and it cost her her husband and the father of her child," said John Day, one of her attorneys. "The justice system worked the way it was supposed to."