A rural Nevada judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether a teenager accused of drunken driving in a crash that killed five people should stand trial in state court on felony charges.
Eighteen-year-old Jean Ervin Soriano is due Wednesday in Moapa Justice Court for the conclusion of an evidence hearing that began May 15.
Soriano is a California juvenile detention escape.
He's been jailed since the March 30 crash of his friend's SUV into the a van on Interstate 15 outside Las Vegas.
Five of seven family members in the van died. They were heading back to Southern California after an Easter visit to a sick relative in Denver.
Soriano faces seven felony driving under the influence charges and two misdemeanors.
Prosecutors say he had a blood-alcohol percentage of 0.12.
