BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Former Bakersfield Police Officer Ricardo Robles was in court Friday morning for sentencing in his manslaughter case stemming from a fatal crash at a rural intersection south of Edison almost two years ago. Robles was behind the wheel in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 19, 2023, when he ran a stop sign at high speed at South Vineland and Muller roads and slammed into two Grimmway Farms workers driving home from a late night work shift. The driver, Mario Lares, age 31, was killed. Passenger Ana Hernandez, 34 at the time, was seriously injured and has since undergone a series of surgeries and hours of difficult physical therapy. Robles, 25 at the time, pleaded no contest to a charge of vehicular manslaughter and accepted a plea deal. He was sentenced Friday to two years of felony probation, 500 hours of community service, restitution to be determined later, and one day in jail -- suspended. The families of the injured parties have retained the law firm of Daniel Rodriguez for a possible civil suit. The victims “come to this intersection and this police car T-bones their car so hard that it sends the car flipping like three rows of vines,” Rodriguez said outside court after the hearing. Rodriguez’s colleague, Chantal Trujillo, said Hernandez is consumed by survivor’s guilt. “She says that she relives that (wreck) constantly and she also has a lot of guilt inside,” Trujillo said, “because she just doesn't understand how could he die when he was such a good person and I'm alive.” At the time of the crash, Robles and his partner were driving toward the location where a stolen car suspect had been apprehended a short time before. That suspect, 21-year-old Michael Monte Stephens Jr., faces arraignment Monday on six charges including vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, a charge related to Robles' fatal crash, which took place at least two miles away. Veteran public defender Teryl Wakeman said Stephens’ case will be a complicated one. “Well, Mr. Stephens is facing a complex set of circumstances, some of which he may be responsible for, some of which he may not be responsible for,” Wakeman said. “So we’re going to do an investigation into the applicable law as it relates to causation. We’re going to do our own investigation into the facts so that we can see what the truth is and move forward.” Chief Public Defender Peter Kang said he was hopeful that a settlement can be reached before Stephens’ case goes to trial.