San Francisco's Superior Court dismissed 70 cases - including sexual battery and DUIs - after a wave of delays that pushed cases past their constitutional deadline.
San Francisco Superior Court officials dismissed 70 misdemeanor cases - including DUIs, sexual battery and violations of restraining orders - that were not heard in court before their constitutional deadline. The mass dismissals came a month after a panel of California appellate judges found that San Francisco's courts improperly postponed a woman's trial for years, justifying the decision with outdated pandemic-era protocols.
' In response, a spokesperson from the district attorney's office shot back that 'any insinuation by the Court that our office should resolve cases irresponsibly in order to help the Court manage its caseload is injudicious, misplaced and improper.' Terrell, a civil rights attorney who has practiced in the California area for more than three decades, told Fox News Digital that he's never seen 'this type of wholesale dismissal based on negligence.
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