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Firefighter Admits To Drinking Before Fatal Crash

POSTED: 9:11 am PDT March 16, 2010
UPDATED: 9:18 am PDT March 16, 2010

The Kern County Firefighter who was charged with vehicular manslaughter and DUI told investigators he had three or four beers before the accident.

According to the police report obtained by ABC23, Mitchell Green said he had been drinking at Hooter's on Rosedale Highway a couple of hours before the accident that happened last month in south Bakersfield.

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  • Green made his first public appearance at his arraignment March 11.

    Green was seated in a wheelchair as the judge read the charges.

    Green has been charged with 5 felony counts including manslaughter with gross negligence and two counts each of DUI with a blood alcohol over 0.08 causing injury for both Michelle Maxwell and her daughter Michela.

    Michelle was killed in the crash.

    Michela was driving and suffered various broken bones and bruises.

    Prosecutor Michael Yraceburn said second degree murder was not an option because there was no evidence of implied malice.

    Yraceburn refused to comment on a police report that put Green's blood alcohol content at 0.13.

    Maxwell's family attended the hearing but did not wish to comment.

    Green pled not guilty to the charges.

    His next hearing will be on April 15, and bail was set at $100,000.

    Yraceburn said if Green is convicted on all charges, he could be sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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