UPDATED: Truck Driver Sentenced to 7 Years

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge sentenced former truck driver Marcos Costa to 7 years and four months for killing a Palmdale man and his daughter in 2009. 

Full story coming soon. 

Earlier: The former truck driver convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of a man and his daughter is due in court this morning for sentencing.

, 46, could face up to nine years in prison for killing Palmdale resident on Apr. 1, 2009 when his 25-ton big rig lost it brakes and barreled out of control down Angeles Crest Highway.

A jury convicted Costa of involuntary manslaughter, gross vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving on July 29 while also acquitting him of the more serious charge of second degree murder. 

during the accident, when the car-carrying rig lost control a mile or so north of Foothill Boulevard and raced down the steep incline, smashing several vehicles before plowing into the former .

Costa, a pastor of 20 years who spent nearly two years in Los Angeles County Jail awaiting trial, has been out on bail since last spring. Following the verdict, said she will ask for the maximum sentence. Costa could receive anywhere from probation to nine years.

said Wednesday he will argue for time served or probation. 

"My job is to see that he doesn't go into custody,'' Murphy said. 

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Darrell Mavis is slated to hear both attorneys' arguments in Pasadena Courthouse's Dept. C. 

For , wife of Angel and mom to Angelina, and the  who survived the 2009 crash, civil litigation continues.

Posca and the victims  against the state department of transportation and the city, alleging unsafe road conditions. It was only after Costa's truck lost its brakes, raced down the Crest and bulldozed through a bookstore that the state erected signs that forbid trucks over four-and-a-half tons (his was 25 tons).

It is now illegal for trucks like Costa's to traverse the mountainous Angeles Crest Highway.