Jury selection began Monday in the case of a Burbank man who is on trial for allegedly killing two victims in an wrong-way traffic accident on Highway 14 in Acton more than two years ago, District Attorney’s officials said.

Bradford Pate, 40, of Burbank, pleaded not contest to multiple charges in a fatal June 22 crash that killed the Rev. Manard Giles, a 77-year-old Quartz Hill minister, and Mattie Lee Ferguson, a 60-year-old Lancaster woman who was a passenger in Giles’s car, in the early morning hours.

Pate is expected to appear in court on August 7 for sentencing, officials said.

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He has been in jail since July 14, 2013, according to Sheriff’s Department arrest records. He’s due back in court June 26 for a pretrial hearing.

He was held to answer to all the charges against him at his preliminary hearing in February 2014, and his case has been continued more than a half-dozen times since then for various pretrial hearings.

Pate is facing two murder charges, a charge of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, a DUI causing injury and the charge of a DUI with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent causing injury.

Pate had a previous DUI conviction in Ventura County in 2007.

The case is being prosecuted by Mykka Piantanida, deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. She didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

The case involves multiple allegations of murder against Pate, and “an extensive discovery process,” Piantanida said in a previous interview.

Pate allegedly drove a 2006 Toyota Tundra south into the northbound lanes of Highway 14, near Escondido Canyon Road, at 3:28 a.m. Saturday, when he collided with a 2006 Chrysler 300, which swerved and struck a rideshare van, according to a CHP report.

Giles was reportedly driving the Chrysler with Ferguson as his passenger.

Juan M. Zamora, 43, of Lancaster, drove the rideshare van, a 2013 Ford Econoline Minor. Zamora was transporting nine passengers to an aerospace work site in Palmdale, likely Plant 42.

Two passengers in the van sustained minor injuries. Efren Arrieta, 27, of Lancaster, and Patrick W. Glesby, 42, of Quartz Hill, was wounded with a cut to left arm.

The other passengers: David G. Moreno, 47, Palmdale; Jose Nario, 22, Palmdale; Javier Cobio, 41, Palmdale; Javier Arrieta, 25, Lancaster; and Alfonso Ramirez, 40, Palmdale were not injured.

Pate also sustained major injuries after his truck flipped and was sent to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia.

Pate is eligible for life in prison without the possibility of parole if he’s convicted of his charges.