Reply A vineyard sign marking Burgundy Way and Pinot Noir Way sits on the edge of a Sonoma County vineyard scorched by the October 2019 Kincade Fire. (Photo by Anne Belden / iStock / Getty Images Plus ) By Joe Dworetzky, Bay City News Foundation BAY AREA, CA — PG&E's latest round of legal troubles got underway Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco at a hearing convened to consider whether the utility company was in violation of the terms of probation imposed following its criminal conviction in 2016. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, the judge overseeing the probation, convened the hearing after Sonoma County's district attorney filed criminal charges against PG&E on April 6 on account of PG&E's role in the 2019 Kincade Fire.