SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 27-year-old man was sentenced on May 19 to 30 years to life in prison for a fatal drunk driving crash that killed two of his passengers in Irvine.
Norman David Martin was convicted on Aug. 11, 2021, of two counts of second-degree murder for the July 22, 2017, pre-dawn crash in a Chevrolet Corvette at Jamboree Road and Main Street.
The passengers, Jamie Lopez and Nancy Ortiz, were both 26. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Martin’s attorney, Heather Moorhead of the Alternate Defender’s Office, declared she had a question about his competency going forward and asked for a suspension of legal proceedings after Martin declared to Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King that his last name was “Martian,” and claiming he was being “controlled by aliens.”…