The former UNC student charged with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with a wrong-way crash on I-85 last summer is due in court Tuesday.
Motions in the case of Chandler Kania are scheduled to be discussed in a Hillsborough courtroom on Tuesday morning.
Multiple outlets reported in early August that Kania’s attorneys would be asking for evidence in the case to be excluded when the case goes to trial, which is set for October.
Among the pieces of evidence the defense team reportedly wants suppressed is Kania’s blood-alcohol content, which registered as a .17 the night of the crash. That is double the legal limit to drive in North Carolina for anyone and Kania was only 20 years old at the time of the crash.
Kania is facing charges of second-degree murder for each of the three passengers that were killed in the vehicle his Jeep struck head-on – 49-year-old Felicia Harris, 46-year-old Darlene McGee and six-year-old Jahnice Baird.
Another passenger, nine-year-old Jahnia King was also seriously hurt in the crash.
Family members of the three victims held a vigil on the one-year anniversary of the crash in July.
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