She said Cady’s consumption of alcohol and marijuana, also with his reckless, aggressive attitude, made for a “deadly combination” that night. 18 percent at the time of the crash, which happened about 11:15 p.m., Harvey said. The prosecutor said the defendant made a number or choices the night of the fatal crash to drink and drive.Ĭady’s blood-alcohol content was somewhere between. While Cady was on probation in the vandalism case, he totaled his Mustang in 2012 after drinking and driving too fast and crashing on a curved road, Harvey told the jury.

“You can’t afford to have alcohol in your life,” the judge told Cady then. The prosecutor was referring to Superior Court Judge Melinda Lasater telling the defendant in 2011 to abstain from alcohol following a vandalism conviction in which he punched through a wall. Cady told them, “You guys don’t need to tell me what I already know,” according to Harvey. The defendant “thumbed his nose” at the judge, his parents, and friends who told him not to drink and drive, the prosecutor said. 10, 2014, crash about the dangers of alcohol. Sentencing is scheduled for July 10.ĭeputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey told jurors in her closing argument that Cady was warned by a judge three years before the Jan.

William Daniel Cady, 26, wiped tears from his eyes as the jury’s verdict was announced after a day of deliberations. SAN DIEGO - A drunken driver who crashed his SUV on a freeway transition ramp, killing three of his five passengers, was convicted Tuesday of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI charges, but acquitted of second-degree murder. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

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