Governor Dismissed From Jury Deliberations
- Share via
A judge dismissed Gov. Craig Benson from the jury in a sexual-assault case after the governor learned, through a question from a reporter, that a defense lawyer was trying to remove him from the panel.
“This stinks,” Benson told reporters at the Statehouse afterward. “I wanted to finish.”
Benson, a high-tech chief executive turned freshman governor, had been deliberating the case at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood.
The judge said deliberations would start up again with an alternate juror.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
