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Woman Pleads Guilty to Causing Alcohol-Related Accident That Killed Passenger
A 22-year-old woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI for causing a head-on crash in El Cajon that killed a passenger in her car. Tania Molinar faces...
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Former Marine Gets 17 Years for Killing 2 UCSD Medical Students in DUI Crash
A former Miramar-based Marine, who drove drunk and caused a head-on freeway crash that killed two UCSD medical students and seriously injured three of their classmates, was sentenced Friday to 17 years...
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Jury Deadlocks on Murder, Manslaughter Charges In Fatal Lyft Driver Case
A jury deadlocked Friday on murder and manslaughter charges against a motorist who was drunk when he fatally struck a Lyft driver tending to a sick passenger on the freeway shoulder of state Route 94,...
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Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Fentanyl-Related Death
A drug dealer who sold a counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl to a man who died in Poway after smoking part of it pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and will be sentenced to 15 years in...
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‘I’m Not Going to Change My Mind’: Judge Upholds Sentence for Ocean Beach Killer
A judge refused Thursday to “strike” a gun use enhancement and affirmed a 16-year prison term for a pharmacist who fatally shot his female roommate’s boyfriend at the door of the defendant’s Ocean...
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Death of Escondido Lyft Driver Preventable, Prosecutor Tells Jury
A drunk motorist who fatally struck a Lyft driver tending to a sick passenger on a freeway shoulder knew the dangers of drinking and driving but did it anyway, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday. Steven...
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Suspected DUI Driver in Deadly South Bay Motorcycle Crash to Stand Trial
A motorist accused of driving drunk and causing a collision that killed a 24-year-old motorcyclist in the South Bay must stand trial on charges of DUI causing injury and gross vehicular manslaughter...
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Man Arrested in Fatal Oceanside Hit-and-Run Crash
A Carlsbad man was behind bars Monday and facing charges of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run for allegedly fleeing the scene of a traffic accident that killed another motorist in Oceanside,...
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Involuntary Manslaughter Plea From Woman Who Stabbed Acquaintance
A woman who fatally stabbed a female acquaintance during an argument at an El Cajon bus stop pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter. Judge Robert Amador indicated he would hand down a...
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Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Fatal Valley Center Crash
A jury found Tuesday that prescription medications a woman had in her system while driving last year were not factors in a head-on crash that killed an octogenarian couple in Valley Center. Jessi...
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Guilty Plea From Drunk Driver Who Killed Female Pedestrian on Escondido Street
A drunken driver who struck and killed an Oceanside woman as she walked across an Escondido street with her boyfriend pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Joel Francisco...
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Navy Sailor Testifies He Wasn’t Drunk in Fatal Crash Off Coronado Bridge
A Navy petty officer testified Tuesday that he wasn’t drunk or speeding when he lost control of his pickup truck on a transition ramp to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and crashed into Chicano Park...
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Man, 23, Sentenced to 12 Years in Chula Vista Beating Death
One of two Chula Vista residents who took part in the beating death of a man during an argument at a marina in the South Bay city was sentenced to a dozen years in state prison Monday. Austin Lee...
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‘Social Anxiety’ Pot Smoker to be Sentenced on Manslaughter
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that a woman who was under the influence of marijuana when she caused a head-on collision near Scripps Ranch that killed a passenger in the other car will not be retried...
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‘Compassionate End’ for Father, 92, Killing Son, 51, in Old Town: No Prison Time
A 92-year-old man who shot his son in the head as he slept in his father’s Old Town residence pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter and is expected to avoid prison time. Richard Landis...
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19-Year-Old Driver Pleads Not Guilty to Oceanside Crash That Killed 3
A 19-year-old man who allegedly plowed a pickup truck into a family’s crowded car in Oceanside, killing three, pleaded not guilty Thursday to DUI and manslaughter charges. The crash near Buccaneer...
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Navy Man Convicted of Manslaughter in Fatal Coronado Bridge Crash
A Navy petty officer who was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that plummeted over the side of a transition ramp to the San Diego- Coronado Bridge and landed in Chicano Park, killing four people, was...
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Woman Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in 2017 Slaying of Man in Home Near Alpine
A woman who fatally shot a male acquaintance at the victim’s Alpine-area home pleaded guilty Friday to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Angela Marie Meza, 49, is slated to be sentenced next month for...
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Man Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter for Fatal Ramona Gas Station Stabbing
A man who fatally stabbed a fellow Ramona resident during a fight at a liquor store and gas station business in their East County hometown is facing as much as a dozen years in state prison, a...
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Woman Pleads Guilty to Wrong-Way DUI Crash That Killed Another Driver
A 23-year-old woman who killed another motorist by driving the wrong way while drunk on a San Diego freeway ramp pleaded guilty Friday to charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and...
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