Weston Ludrick, left, looks at the jury Tuesday while Pete Joel interprets. Ludrick, 31, is charged with negligent homicide in the death of Miguel Guadarrama-Nava, 66, following a four-vehicle accident on Old Wire Road, just south of Emma Avenue shortly before Christmas. Ludrick is a native of a Micronesian island, Pohnpei, and speaks an obscure South Pacific island dialect. Joel is a native of Pohnpei and fluent in the dialect.
Photo by J.T. Wampler

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Amber Ayala and her children still remember the night two vehicles slammed head-on into their minivan. The crash killed the children’s grandfather and sent the rest of the family to the hospital.

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