Circuit Court Removes Judge From Criminal Case Over COVID-19 Dispute

Published on May 14, 2024

A federal appeals court has removed a judge from a criminal case after he dismissed it twice due to a ban on jury trials during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case against Jeffrey Olsen is being reassigned from U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said on May 9. Judge Carney, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, dismissed the case for a second time in 2022 even after the circuit court ordered him to schedule a trial. In a 44-page ruling, the judge decried how the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California suspended jury trials over the COVID-19 pandemic starting in March 2020, and indefinitely in August 2020. The suspension lasted through May 2021....

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