The trial of Ayana Council, charged with murder in an alleged DUI crash last year, is about to begin. #CouncilTrial Council is represented by public defenders Nick Roth and Samantha Sark. Tara Deal is the prosecutor. Judge Brian McNamara is presiding. #CouncilTrial

Sentencing is about to take place for Ronald Pierce Jr. and Israel Maldonado, convicted in a crash that killed a Bakersfield grandmother. The two men were racing, and Pierce was drunk, when the crash occurred. #StreetRacingTrial The crash happened on Old River Road near Ming Avenue in November 2019. Pierce is represented by David A. Torres, Maldonado by Tony Lidgett. The prosecutor is Cole McKnight. #StreetRacingTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West is back in session. Judge Charles Brehmer told the jury that a couple days ago there was an objection to a motion to strike regarding a witness, and he struck testimony related to initial contact w children and county counsel. #WestsTrial The Wests are charged with crimes including murder in the deaths of Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3, and the trial is now in its 20th day. It is expected to wrap up soon. #WestsTrial

We're on the 19th day of trial in the case against Trezell and Jacqueline West. The entire grand jury testimony of the Wests' eldest child is going to be read into the record, with attorneys and the judge reading different parts. #WestsTrial Attorney R. L. Hutchison is reading the responses of the child, while Fatima Rodriguez, one of the attorneys representing Jacqueline West, is reading the responses of the interviewer. #WestsTrial

Court is back in session in the trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West. Jacqueline West's attorney, Alekxia Torres Stallings, is questioning her first witness, Christopher Armstrong, who enhanced images and video for the defense. #WestsTrial Armstrong testified one video of the West home on Dec. 21, 2020, shows lights in the background that in his opinion correspond with the motion of a car on the roadway. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West is back in session. This is the 18th day of trial for the couple, charged with murder and other offenses in the deaths of Orrin and Orson West, who authorities say died 3 months before the Wests reported them missing. #WestsTrial Detective Thomas Hernandez is back on the stand under cross-examination by Timothy Hennessy, lead attorney for Trezell West. He is discussing receiving a tip from a woman who says she saw the boys in Arlington, Texas. #WestsTrial

Starting a new thread. The boy says he's worried about both Orrin and Orson. He say he wants them to return to play with him. #WestsTrial The boy says the Wests' biological children talked about where Orrin and Orson went but he doesn't know where they went. #WestsTrial

We're back in session in the trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West. Wanda West, Trezell's mother, is testifying via Zoom. #WestsTrial Trezell and Jacqueline are charged with murder and other crimes in the deaths of Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3, whose bodies have not been found. Prosecutors say the boys died about 3 months before the Wests reported them missing. The boys were adopted. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West is back in session with the Wests' eldest child on the stand being questioned by prosecutor Eric Smith. #WestsTrial With Smith referring him to the transcript of the interview played before the afternoon break, the boy said Orrin choked and there was vomit coming out of his mouth. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West has resumed with the Wests' 9-year-old biological son back on the witness stand. He's being cross-examined by Alekxia Torres Stallings, lead counsel for Jacqueline West. #WestsTrial The Wests are charged with murder and other crimes in the deaths of Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3, who were reported missing Dec. 21, 2020 and whose bodies have not been found. Prosecutors say the boys died months before reported missing. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West has resumed with the Wests' adopted 10-year-old child on the stand. #WestsTrial Prosecutor Eric Smith is displaying a photo of bunk beds in the Wests' California City home. The child said he had the top bed. Orrin or Orson had the bottom bed he said, adding he can't remember. #WestsTrial

Ashley Penland is testifying via Zoom at the trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West. She lives in Arizona and previously lived in California City. #WestsTrial Penland testified she became aware of the search for Orrin and Orson West the evening of Dec. 21, 2020. Cal City police went to her home. #WestsTrial

Attorneys are due in court this morning for a possible decision on whether ex-Kern deputy David Keith Rogers, who killed 2 prostitutes in the 1980s, will have his penalty phase retried a second time. #RogersTrial Rogers was convicted and sentenced to death more than 30 years ago but the state Supreme Court overturned his death penalty after determining a witness had lied. His penalty phase was retried earlier this year; a jury hung 10-2 in favor of the death penalty. #RogersTrial

The trial is back in session in the case of Trezell and Jacqueline West, accused in the deaths of adopted children Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3. Detective Thomas Hernandez, the lead investigator, is back on the stand. #WestsTrial Hernandez has identified DNA swabs he took of Ralph Moseley and some of the other West children. Smith ended his questioning and defense is going to wait to cross-examine Hernandez because he's going to testify later in the trial. #WestsTrial

Court is back in session with another witness testifying via Zoom. This witness is the sister of Jacqueline West. She now lives in Oregon, where she went to escape an abuser, she said. #WestsTrial When she moved to Oregon the Wests had only their first two children, she said. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West resumes this morning with testimony from Apryl Brown, a criminalist at the Kern Regional Crime Lab. #WestsTrial The Wests are charged with murder and other crimes in the deaths of adopted sons Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3. Their bodies have not been found. #WestsTrial

Officer Brian Hansen of the Cal City PD has taken the stand in the second day of trial for Trezell and Jacqueline West. The Wests are charged with murder and other offenses in the deaths of their adopted sons Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3. #WestsTrial On Dec. 21, 2020, the day Orrin and Orson were reported missing, Hansen went to the Wests home. He had a police trainee, Joshua Flores, with him. #WestsTrial

The trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West -- accused in the deaths of Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3 -- is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. The Wests were the adoptive parents of the boys, who were reported missing in December 2020. #WestsTrial The Wests are charged with 2nd-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, child cruelty, falsely reporting an emergency and conspiracy. It's also alleged they induced a minor to commit a crime. #WestsTrial