A trial date of Dec. 1 has been set for the 21-year-old Marine who is charged with killing two medical students at UCSD in La Jolla in a wrong-way crash on state Route 163 that occurred after the Marine was driving while intoxicated.
The case of Lance Cpl. Jason Riley King was assigned July 8 to San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh for trial and another hearing was set for Sept. 15. King remains in jail on $3 million bail.
King is accused of two counts of second-degree murder in the May 16 deaths of Anne Baldock, 24, of La Jolla, and Madison Cornwell, 23, from Mission Viejo. He is also accused of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and DUI with serious injury to three other passengers.
If convicted of murder, King could be sentenced to a maximum term of 47 years to life in prison. The jury would have to decide whether to convict him of murder or vehicular manslaughter or both. He has pleaded not guilty.
At an emotional preliminary hearing June 23, some of the injured passengers testified about that night. Others testified they tried to dissuade King from driving away from a bar in Mission Valley because they said he had too much to drink. Judge Michael Smyth ordered him to stand trial on all charges.