Ivan Lopez-Garcia, 25, had an open can of Modelo Especial in the front seat of his car when he struck and killed Jim Carlos Sanchez in Hayward, according to witness testimony.
OAKLAND — A Hayward man will serve one year in jail, in addition to nearly two he’s already spent behind bars, after pleading no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter of a pedestrian, court records show.
It was an open-ended plea deal, giving Nixon a choice of anything from freeing Lopez-Garcia outright to imposing a 10-year prison term, according to a transcript of the change-of-plea hearing.when Lopez-Garcia struck him near the intersection of D Street and Valley Street in Hayward. Then his vehicle continued and got into a second collision, at D Street and Second Street, where Lopez-Garcia were arrested. Police said at the time both accidents were his fault.
Prosecutors, though, argued that Lopez-Garcia’s bad driving was further evidence he was very drunk. They also pointed to testimony of a witness who had witnessed Lopez-Garcia stumbling, beer in hand, at his Hayward home earlier in the evening.
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