The latest update on Logan Brewer Hearst's drug and firearm trial is SSDD

Courtroom 2 was dark because no Visiting or Retired Judge was available. Pigs will fly before California Governor Gavin Newsom will appoint someone to fill Retired Humboldt Superior Court Judge Joyce Hinrich's seat.

One courtroom being dark further impacts preliminary hearings and jury trials. Serious and felony cases are trailing misdemeanor cases because those defendants did not waive time.

To anyone with common sense, more serious cases in custody should get precedence but courts and government have cookie cutter policies and laws and defense attorneys and defendants will game the system.

For those interested in that appointment, they have read all my coverage and know why. Ditto for why Humboldt Superior Court backlog.

For those interested in the jury trial for convicted felon Logan Brewer Hearst drug and firearm case, I have been adding minor updates to my June 24 post. 

Some of those updates are why Brewer Hearst's case has not gone to trial. It has been trailing other jury trials, including misdemeanor cases. No one has heard of these defendants and by the time Brewer-Hearst goes to trial, no one except those impacted will be interested in the outcome.

6/24/26: OR bail on 6/25; jury trial + motion to strike 6/29.

6/25/26: OR & SR denied by Retired Visiting Judge Ksenia Tsenin; Brewer-Hearst remains on no bail status.

6/29/26: Jury trial + motion to strike conviction continued to 6/30 no judge and no courtroom.

6/30/26: Jury trial + motion to strike conviction continued to 7/1.

7/1/26: Jury trial + motion to strike conviction continued to 7/6 with yet another OR bail hearing. Attorneys met with Retired Judge Christopher Wilson today.

Every day, attorneys and I waste time to hear the same no judge/no courtroom available.

Trailing day by day when there is no chance the case will go to trial is a waste of time. As are most Humboldt daily and multiple continuances.