Francisco Andres Alvarez pleaded guilty to charges in the March 25, 2018, crash that killed Brandon Contreras and Ana Lira, both 19
A driver who slammed into another car at an Escondido intersection in 2018, killing two people in the other vehicle, was sentenced in Vista Superior Court Monday to four years in state prison.
Police say Alvarez ran a red light and struck the victims’ Mustang. The crash also seriously injured a boy who was riding in the victims’ vehicle. However, a three-justice panel from the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled last year that Alvarez’s blood was illegally drawn without a warrant while he was unconscious or unresponsive.
The officer who obtained the blood draw testified that “getting the warrant would have created substantial delays primarily because he was the only officer at the hospital, he did not have the proper paperwork, and other officers were still investigating the scene,” according to the panel’s opinion.
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