In one fell swoop, a sexual battery case was dismissed, the suspect was set free and a victim was left with no justice or peace. Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said the case was first ...

Hundreds of felony and misdemeanor cases that piled up during the pandemic have been dismissed in Riverside County Superior Court during the last two weeks because of a shortage of judges, according ...

The Riverside County Superior Court will reduce services and furlough most of its staff one day each month beginning in January to help offset state budget cuts, court officials said. Furloughs will ...

Since October, more than 1,700 court cases have been dismissed in Riverside County. These dismissals include cases involving child sexual assault, attempted murder, DUIs, and domestic violence. This ...

Riverside County's district attorney, public defender and top judges met in September to discuss how the local criminal justice system was going to manage the thousands of cases that had built up ...

To pare down the backlog of unresolved cases set for trial and to prevent the ongoing cascade of dismissals that critics say pose a risk to public safety, the Riverside County Superior Court has ...

Riverside County Superior Court is suspending new criminal or civil trials until about the end of the month due to the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant, the court's administration announced ...

A Desert Hot Springs couple said they are feeling powerless and betrayed by the very system they believed was supposed to protect them. Tabitha Davies and Israel Rivera said they were robbed of their ...

California's Fourth District Court of Appeal partially vacated a court order to quash a subpoena aimed at Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin that seeks to surface alleged communications ...