Jurors Awaiting Negligent Homicide Case

PROSECUTORS SAY WRECK CAUSED BY DRUNKEN DRIVER

By Ron Wood

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Weston Ludrick, left, looks at the jury Tuesday while Pete Joel interprets. Ludrick, 31, is charged with negligent homicide in the death of Miguel Guadarrama-Nava, 66, following a four-vehicle accident on Old Wire Road, just south of Emma Avenue shortly before Christmas. Ludrick is a native of a Micronesian island, Pohnpei, and speaks an obscure South Pacific island dialect. Joel is a native of Pohnpei and fluent in the dialect.

Weston Ludrick, left, looks at the jury Tuesday while Pete Joel interprets. Ludrick, 31, is charged with negligent homicide in the death of Miguel Guadarrama-Nava, 66, following a four-vehicle accident on Old Wire Road, just south of Emma Avenue shortly before Christmas. Ludrick is a native of a Micronesian island, Pohnpei, and speaks an obscure South Pacific island dialect. Joel is a native of Pohnpei and fluent in the dialect.
Photo by J.T. Wampler

Amber Ayala and her children still remember the night two vehicles slammed head-on into their minivan. The crash killed the children’s grandfather and sent the rest of the family to the hospital.

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News, Pages 4 on 11/04/2009

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