{"id":58537,"date":"2025-11-18T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58537\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:44:38","slug":"bakersfield-christmas-parade-crash-trial-postponed-to-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58537\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Christmas Parade crash trial postponed to December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The trial of an accused drunken driver who hit multiple spectators at the 2023 Bakersfield Christmas Parade has been postponed to December. <\/p>\n<p>The trial of Alan Booth, 74, has been postponed numerous times. The latest delay \u2014 to Dec. 8 \u2014 was due to the medical unavailability of his attorney, Jeremy Brehmer. <\/p>\n<p>Booth has pleaded not guilty to four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two DUI-related counts and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, Booth took a breath test after the Dec. 7, 2023, crash that showed his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local-news\/dui-news\/parade-crash-driver-had-bac-3x-legal-limit-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">blood-alcohol content<\/a>\u00a0was 0.25%. Blood tests revealed even an higher number number \u2014 0.28%.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on bail but arrested months later on suspicion of driving on a suspended license with a BAC of 0.24%. Misdemeanor charges were filed in that case. He has since been held without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The trial of an accused drunken driver who hit multiple spectators at the 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-58537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}