The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has filed its first appeal to one of many cases dismissed by Riverside Superior Court after it was not tried by a legal deadline.
The DA’s Office announced that the court had dismissed more than 200 cases Oct. 24. The Riverside District Attorney’s Office has criticized the dismissals, saying precedent allows the cases to be prosecuted at a later date, and that the dismissals were optional. Presiding Judge John Monterosso explicitly disagreed with that description, and said it is a settled fact that they had to dismiss the cases.
Under California Law, criminal cases must be dismissed if
