A 22-year-old California man pleaded innocent to three counts of second-degree murder on Monday stemming from the car crash that killed Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two of his companions.
Andrew Thomas Gallo entered his not guilty pleas during a brief hearing in Orange County Superior Court and was ordered to return on July 31.
His attorney, Randall Longwith, said after the hearing that he would seek to have the trial moved elsewhere.
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“Generally the emotion here, it’s so heated,” Longwith told reporters. “The threats are coming to [Gallo] and a whole lot to me as well.”
An Orange County Grand jury indicted Gallo in April on three counts of second-degree murder and one count each of fleeing the scene of a scene of a fatal traffic collision and drunk driving.
Prosecutors say Gallo had almost three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he ran a red light at 105kph and slammed his minivan into the car carrying the pitcher and three others.
Adenhart was killed along with Courtney Stewart, 20, and Henry Pearson 25.
A fourth passenger, Jon Wilhite, was critically injured. Wilhite was in court for the hearing.
Gallo has a prior conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol and was on probation at the time of the crash. He faces up to 54 years in prison if he is convicted on all of the charges.
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