BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A 20-year-old man on Friday pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in connection with a deadly stabbing that occurred outside a northwest Bakersfield house party.
Bradley Cesar Perez is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 3, according to court records. A charge of first-degree murder was dismissed.
Perez was arrested days after the Oct. 6 stabbing death of Lawrence James Leyvas, who’d suffered a single stab wound to the right side of his neck…