Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin criticizes the court system, but defense lawyers point at him.
To say the wheels of justice turn slowly assumes the wheels move at all.
District Attorney Mike Hestrin blames the dismissals on inflexible judges who he said failed to manage an onslaught of cases after expiration of a statewide order that helped courts handleRiverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin talks Monday, April 10, 2023, about recent criminal case dismissals and why it’s happening.
Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, seen Monday, April 10, 2023, talks about recent criminal case dismissals. Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, seen Monday, April 10, 2023, is concerned about dismissals of criminal cases. “The courts decided, and I believe dug in their heels, that there was no good cause to ” criminal cases after the order ended, Hestrin said in a Monday, April 10, interview.
During the pandemic, “the DA’s office just piled more fuel onto the fire” by adding to the court’s workload, said Graham Donath, president of thePaulette Norman, head of the county public defenders union, said Hestrin’s criticism “almost feels like a scare tactic, in a way, to say these cases are being dismissed like this when you’re the one that probably created a lot of the issue.”
“I understand that some people want to blame the DA’s office,” he said. “But the data doesn’t back that up.”A DA’s office breakdown of 1,782 case dismissals shows a plurality — 725, or 41% — were DUIs. The next biggest group — 409, orFelony charges can be refiled, but misdemeanors cannot.
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