Man pleads no contest to voluntary manslaughter in deadly stabbing at NW Bakersfield party

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…

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