More waste of time with uneccessary continuances multiple times a week in Humboldt criminal cases

 

I just did a post on Christopher Diven and Rosalyn Klock so you can check the previous post where these updates have also been added.

Diven has 4 cases. One case scheduled on 5/20 was continued to 5/22 before the May 20 date. The rest of his cases remained on calendar on 5/20 only to be continued to 5/22 by defense.

This kind of inefficiency and multiple continuances in one week and in several cases with multiple defendants has been happening for weeks and months now. 

Who is to blame? More than one person. Other than inefficiency from Humboldt Superior Court, some attorneys and public defenders are reshuffling too many dates and they can't even do that for all the cases.

This inefficiency and chaos just needs to be fixed. It is not hard to see that a defendant has more than one case.

In Klock's case, pre trial in her criminal case was continued from yesterday to today because Gregory Kreis was not present. This is at least the second case I have seen where Kreis was not present, I am not digging through all my posts for the other case. In the 12 years of covering local courts, I have seen one or two instances of an attorney in a criminal case not being present in cases I cover. It isn't the same attorney twice. Gregory Kreis is a court appointed private attorney. There are other court appointed private attorneys like Ms. Rebecca Linkous and Paul Gallegos who have more cases and they show up for court. Mr. Gallegos, even when he has an ongoing trial. The pre trial should have just been rescheduled from 5/20 to the 5/29 sentencing hearing in two of her cases. Today, in CR2601890, the case was dismissed by People in interest of justice. This could have been done on 5/29.

All these pre trials are not resulting in less hearings and efficiency. They just create more work for court staff and since I am the one to update the public on most cases; cost me time and money.

Judges in criminal cases need to start holding not present accountable. In civil cases, attorneys have to tell why they did not show up.

I am not sure why a pre trial was continued to the next day. This is why every day, the court calendar is unreasonable.

Criminal cases are the ones always causing chaos in Humboldt Superior Court creating backlogs. The judges and court administration need to get together and figure out a solution.

Court appointed private attorneys get paid by the taxpayers. I know it is hard to get court appointed attorneys but maybe the search needs to be expanded beyond Humboldt and the local insider legal clique.

I was the only one to report on Jon Goldberg's resentencing. Today, there was a hearing scheduled for clarification of sentence PC 1172.1 (a) (1). I added the abstract to the previous post.

This is how even a day where I think there are three cases multiply into 10 or more and a light day like that is rare.