Cady

Arising from an incident in which William Daniel Cady drove his vehicle at an excessive and unsafe speed while intoxicated, resulting in an accident that killed three of his passengers and injured two others, the jury found Cady guilty of the following crimes: three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated (Pen. Code, § 191.5, subd. (a) ) (counts 4-6), with the further finding that he personally inflicted great bodily injury ( id ., §§ 1192.7, subd. (c)(8), 1192.8); one count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury (Veh. Code, § 23153, subd. (a) ) (count 7); one count of driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 percent or more causing injury ( id ., § 23153, subd. (b) ) (count 8); and one count of driving *628 under the combined influence of alcohol and a drug causing injury ( id ., § 23153, subd. (f) ) (count 9). For counts 7 through 9 the jury found that Cady personally inflicted great bodily injury upon five different victims (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a) ), and for each of the counts, the jury found that Cady proximately caused great bodily injury or death. (Veh. Code, § 23558.) The trial court sentenced Cady to 18 years in prison.

Cady…