Blood analysis results confirmed Skipper's blood contained the class A controlled drug, methamphetamine. However the concentration was unspecified in the summary of facts.
Skipper initially denied causing her daughter's death, pleading not guilty to the primary charge of causing death and guilty to driving while forbidden before Judge Geoff Rea in August 2016.
However potential jurors were sent home early when Skipper appeared for trial in the Napier District Court in March this year; Hawkins electing to have a judge-alone trial.
During a brief 15-minute trial in front of Judge Tony Adeane, Hawkins applied for the charge of causing a death while under the influence of meth to be amended and reduced to a lesser one so there would be a lesser penalty.
This application was declined by the judge who told the court that the current charge had been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
The following month she was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment.
Last month Skipper successfully appealed this sentence, but the appeal against her conviction was dismissed.
Skipper's lawyer, Madeline Laracy, told the Court of Appeal the charge was more serious than the situation warranted, which had resulted in a sentence that was too harsh.
She argued that while there was methamphetamine in her client's system, it was a small amount and there was no evidence it had directly caused the crash.
"The ESR analysis showed that this was an extremely low level of methamphetamine.
"That factor, and the fact that the ESR did not go so far as to draw any causative link between the level of the drug and the driver behaviour, that was a useful indicator for the judge that the lesser charge was the appropriate one."
After serving five months in jail Skipper, who was on bail, was yesterday re-sentenced to four months' home detention and disqualified from holding a driver licence for three years by Judge Geoff Rea.