Pretrial hearings are scheduled for the man accused of causing a hit-and-run accident that killed a Taft man on July 27.
Alejandro Padilla has pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter and hit and run on the death of Joe Paul Gongora on the 1000 block of Kern Street.
He is due to be in court for a pretrial hearing and to set a date for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 20…