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   From: susan12@gmail.com   
      
   We know somebody else who likes to drive recklessly and kill   
   their friends.   
      
   A Yolo County jury has found a Sacramento man guilty of second-   
   degree murder in the death of a passenger in the vehicle he was   
   driving in January 2012.   
      
   The jury also convicted 23-year-old Ryan Scott Baird of gross   
   vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with two prior   
   convictions for driving under the influence, driving under the   
   influence causing injury and driving with blood alcohol at or   
   above .08 causing injury, according to a Yolo County District   
   Attorney's Office news release. Killed in the crash was Robert   
   Sunderland III.   
      
   In addition, the jury found Baird guilty of enhancements for   
   causing great bodily injury to Oscar Saeed Rodriguez, causing   
   great bodily injury with a coma to James Black and causing   
   injury to multiple victims.   
      
   On Jan. 6, 2012, Baird and the other three men were attending a   
   barbecue at James Black's house to celebrate his 21st birthday.   
   All four got into Baird's 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Baird drove   
   onto Interstate 5 at Main Street in Woodland and exited at   
   County Road 102. Authorities calculated that the vehicle was   
   traveling between 79 and 94 mph before the brakes locked,   
   launching the car off the side of the road, where the vehicle   
   rolled numerous time.   
      
   The three passengers were ejected from the car and Baird had to   
   be cut out of the driver's seat. Sunderland died at the scene.   
      
   Black was in a coma for weeks and suffered a severe traumatic   
   brain injury as well a multiple fractures to his pelvis and   
   legs, according to the news release. He underwent numerous   
   surgeries, and is still living in a rehabilitation facility and   
   undergoing treatment for severe memory loss. Rodriguez suffered   
   a broken arm that required surgery and a fractured back.   
      
   This was Baird's third DUI charge, officials said, and the   
   second motor vehicle crash he had caused as a result of driving   
   under the influence. In a breath test at the crash scene, Baird   
   registered a blood alcohol level of .144 and a blood test done   
   shortly thereafter showed a blood alcohol level of .18, as well   
   as the presence of marijuana, according to the news release.   
      
   Officials said Baird had been warned and had acknowledged that   
   driving under the influence was dangerous when he pleaded no   
   contest in each of his two prior DUI cases.   
      
   Baird is to be sentenced June 25 by Yolo Superior Court Judge   
   Janet Gaard, who presided over the trial.   
      
   http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2013/05/driver-guilty-of-   
   second-degree-murder-in-crash-near-woodland.html   
      
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