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Wrong-Way Driver in Deadly 2013 Crash Accepts Charges

By KHTS AM-1220 & SCVNEWS.com Staff | Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015

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The driver in a fatal wrong-way crash on Highway 14 in 2013 pleaded no-contest to multiple charges Monday.

Bradford Pate, 40, of Burbank, was driving a 2006 Toyota Tundra southbound in northbound lanes near Escondido Canyon Road in the early-morning hours of June 22, 2013, when he collided with a 2006 Chrysler 300 that swerved and struck a rideshare van.

Killed were Rev. Manard Giles, a 77-year-old Quartz Hill minister who was driving the Chrysler, and his passenger Mattie Lee Ferguson, a 60-year-old Lancaster woman who succumbed to her injuries two nights later at Providence Holy Cross Hospital.

Pate had a previous DUI conviction in Ventura County in 2007. Now he faced two murder charges, a charge of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, a DUI causing injury, and a charge of a DUI with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent causing injury. If convicted of all charges, he would be eligible for life in prison without parole, officials said at the time.

He is expected to appear in court Aug. 7 for sentencing.

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Rob Keith Appleman says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

Am I misunderstand something, or did he plead guilty to two counts of murder?

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- a haha oltgkl says:
  
  Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at
  
  No he plead no contest on mutual charges but in the eyes of the court a no contest plea is takin as a guilty plea
  
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Shirley Vercelli says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

I think he plead guilty to driving the wrong way. A jury will decide the verdict more than likely.

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Paul Economou says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

Yeah, repeat DUI offenders can and are charged with murder if they crash causing the death of someone while drunk.

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Stephanie Dardon says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

Katherine Molina

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Courtney Kristine says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

He plead no contest to multiple charges. In the eyes of the courts a no contest plea is takin as a guilty plea

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SCVTV Santa Clarita says:

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He pleaded no contest.

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Teri King-Libretti says:

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at

That’s what he is charged with and he plead no contest, so sounds like guilty to me ☺

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Sherie Dexter says:

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He pleaded no contest so now he will be sentenced it says. Saves Our tax dollars not to have a trial! He’s basically saying he doesn’t dispute the charges. As a repeat dui offender now causing death hope they give him harsh penalty. Those families lives are changed forever it’s a sad situation

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