A transient accused of igniting a blaze that destroyed a building in downtown Riverside was charged Friday with arson, while his alleged cohort was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
High school teams from Hemet, Murrieta and Riverside will engage in a battle of wits and legal stratagems Tuesday to reach the final round in the Riverside County Mock Trial Competition.
Riverside County prosecutors are scrambling to re- file cases — including child sexual assault cases — booted by Superior Court judges, who are justifying the dismissals by citing lack of available courtroom space, the District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
The number of cases dismissed by Riverside County judges contending with a backlog that accumulated during the COVID public health lockdowns is just under 1,100, many of them assault and domestic violence filings — as well as a few for attempted murder and kidnapping, the District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
The vast majority of criminal cases being dismissed in Riverside County are coming before judges in Indio, who are voiding charges against defendants in both felony and misdemeanor cases, the District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
The first appellate action to challenge a wave of dismissals by Riverside County Superior Court judges trying to slice through a backlog that accumulated during the COVID lockdowns is underway.
Testimony is slated to conclude Wednesday in the trial of a 53-year-old convicted DUI offender accused of running over and killing a California Highway Patrol officer on the shoulder of Interstate 15 in Lake Elsinore. The prosecution and defense are both expected to rest after final witnesses are called in the nearly two-week-long trial. Closing […]
A Sept. 3 preliminary hearing date was confirmed Thursday for a felon accused of fatally beating a woman in Indio. Edwardo Alvarez, 40, was arrested last October on suspicion of killing 32-year-old Madeleine Gutierrez of Indio at a condominium complex in the 47- 300 block of Monroe Street. Alvarez is charged with one court of […]
