9th Circuit reversal in pandemic jury trial dismissal could foreshadow 4 pending appeals The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP) Print In an ominous sign for four other criminal defendants, a Newport Beach physician is due back in an Orange County federal courtroom after an appellate court reversed a judge’s dismissal of his charges. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined April 23 that U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney erred when he dismissed Jeffrey Olsen’s 34-count indictment because of the court’s pandemic-related ban on jury trials, sharply rebuking a constitutional stance that had become somewhat of a crusade for Carney.