Criminal
Nov. 6, 2017
Public defender’s office fired for excessive trial delays in sex offender’s case
A man whom prosecutors petitioned to incarcerate as a sexually violent predator may be released over speedy trial issues.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Bianco fired the public defender's office from handling the case of a man, George Vasquez, because of excessive delays in his trial.
LOS ANGELES -- Seventeen years into a two-year commitment, a man whom prosecutors petitioned to incarcerate as a sexually violent predator may be released if a judge finds he was denied the right to a speedy trial. If the defendant's motion to dismiss that petition is successful, it might have encouraging implications for defendants in similar circumstances.
George Vasquez was convicted of four counts of lewd acts upon a child under...
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