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Attys Wasting Time In Sluggish Opioid Trial: Calif. Judge
Law360 (May 12, 2021, 11:23 PM EDT) A bummed-out California judge on Wednesday lambasted loquacious lawyers for handling the nation s second opioid crisis trial at a decidedly West Coast clip, declaring that they ve been wasting time with irrelevant inquiries during four weeks of increasingly tedious testimony.
A California judge on Wednesday criticized attorneys on all sides of an opioid trial for their time-consuming approach to the case. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson did not spare any attorneys in the $50 billion case from his constructive criticism, explicitly saying that everyone has frittered away precious hours with hypercautious questioning.
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By City News Service
Key in Jail Cell Door
SANTA ANA (CNS) - An Orange County Superior Court judge has said he would consider hiring an expert to comb through jail records to help determine which inmates can be released to help inmates better comply with physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson ordered the jail population reduced by 50%. During Friday s hearing, it was noted that Wilson meant the jail population should be lowered by half from where it was in March when there were 5,200 inmates.
So, Wilson is aiming to lower the population to 2,650. As of Friday, the population in the jails is 3,358. So about 708 inmates could be released to home confinement, placed on GPS monitoring or moved to another facility.
About half of those inmates are already ticketed for prison.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes has attempted to appeal Wilson s order, but so far has failed, compelling him to submit a plan on how to halve the inmate population.
American Civil Liberties Union attorneys, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of several current and former inmates, said in papers filed this week Barnes failed to submit the plan Wilson ordered.
Instead, the ACLU attorneys argued, Barnes “devotes most of his plan to discussing measures that are unrelated to population reduction. None of these measures address the urgent need for social distancing within the jail. The few measures that could conceivably promote social distancing are woefully inadequate.”
By City News Service
Dec 30, 2020
SANTA ANA (CNS) - A panel of appellate court justices rejected a writ from Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes to suspend a lower court ruling ordering a halving of the county s jail population to better conform with COVID-19 health guidelines.
Presiding Justice Kathleen O Leary of the Fourth District Court of Appeals, Division 3, authored the ruling with Justice Raymond Ikola concurring and Justice David Thompson dissenting.
The justices noted that Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson s order issued earlier this month did not order Barnes to cut the jail population in half before a scheduled Jan. 8 hearing.