{"id":4799,"date":"2012-11-14T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/court-hearing-continued-for-kent-man-charged-with-panther-lake-vehicular-homicide\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:45:36","slug":"court-hearing-continued-for-kent-man-charged-with-panther-lake-vehicular-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/court-hearing-continued-for-kent-man-charged-with-panther-lake-vehicular-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Court hearing continued for Kent man charged with Panther Lake vehicular homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>An 18-year-old Kent man charged with vehicular homicide had a court hearing continued to Nov. 21 in connection with the death of Kent motorcyclist Aug. 22 in the Panther Lake area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Justin Jerald Cordova had a hearing continued from Nov. 7, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney&#8217;s Office. At the hearing, attorneys could again ask for more time to prepare the case or a trial date could be set.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cordova pleaded not guilty to the charge Sept. 6. Cordova remains in the county jail at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent with bail set at $100,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If convicted of vehicular homicide, Cordova faces a sentencing range of six to 8 1\/2 years under a new state law that took effect in June. The previous sentencing range was 2 1\/2 to 3 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a title=\"charge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/167861895.html\" target=\"_self\">Prosecutors allege that Cordova had a blood-alcohol level <\/a>of 0.12 percent and traveled at high speed in a 1986 Nissan coupe eastbound\u00a0 Aug. 22 in the 12100 block of Southeast 223rd Drive when his car reportedly crossed the centerline and collided with a westbound 2006 Suzuki motorcycle driven by David Daniel at about 6:44 a.m. Aug. 22, according to charging papers. Daniel died at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Witnesses reported that Cordova had been going an estimated 65 mph on Southeast 223rd Drive just prior to the accident. They described the car as going &#8220;freeway speed.&#8221; The posted speed is 25 mph in the residential neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cordova told Kent Police officers that he had been drinking Red Bull and Jaegermeister at about 11 the previous night. He said he was going about 45 mph and didn&#8217;t see the motorcycle. Cordova submitted to a portable breath test that indicated a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 percent, above the 0.02 level to cite a minor for a DUI and the 0.08 level for adults.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cordova has prior convictions for third-degree assault and obstructing in 2010, according to charging papers. He also had an unspecified alcohol offense in 2011.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old Kent man charged with vehicular homicide had a court hearing continued to Nov. 21 in connection with the death of Kent motorcyclist Aug. 22 in the Panther Lake area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}