ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) -- The semitruck driver charged in a deadly chain-reaction crash on the 10 Freeway in Ontario made his first appearance in the case in a Rancho Cucamonga courtroom on Friday morning.

New details reveal that the driver was able to obtain his commercial driver's license (CDL) through both state and federal processes that were in place at the time. However, those processes changed on a federal level on Sept. 26, just over a month before the deadly crash.

Through his public defender, and with an interpreter by his side, Jashanpreet Singh pleaded not guilty to the multiple criminal counts against him, including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing bodily injury or death, and driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs.

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