Betty Jean DiBiasio, 21, dies in hit-and-run on Ditmars Boulevard near 19th Street in Astoria, New York

  Aunt of Nick Colleran Emotions boiled over yesterday when a weeping drag racer was sentenced to up to three years in prison for killing a garment worker when her speeding car rammed his vehicle in Queens. As court officers led Joanne Giampietro, 21, from the packed courtroom, court officers had to forcibly remove her attorney when he continued to argue about the sentence. Lawyer Robert Pellicane slumped against a hallway wall and later said his arm was broken. He was ordered removed from the courtroom after disobeying an order by Supreme Court Justice Mark Spires to stop arguing about the sentence for criminally negligent homicide. The chaos in the courtroom continued as Giampietro's sister Grace cursed at Assistant District Attorney Michelle Luzio, who prosecuted the case. A court officer escorted Luzio to her car while about 10 other officers kept friends and relatives of the victim, Edward Yip, and Giampietro separated. About 50 people packed the room for the sentencing. Prosecutors proved during the December trial that Giampietro was racing another vehicle in November 1994 when her souped-up rig slammed into a car driven by Yip, a 26-year-old garment worker, on 20th Ave. in Astoria. Giampietro, who had never before been in trouble with the law, sobbed as she told Spires before sentencing that she was speeding but not drag racing. "This was an accident, and accidents happen every day," Giampietro said. "Jail is for criminals, and my sister is not a criminal," Grace Giampietro said later. Yip's friends and relatives cheered the punishment. "I feel much better," said Vi-Kong Yip, the victim's father. "They needed to punish her. She killed my son.