As expected, a Superior Court Judge agreed with San Bernardino County prosecutors to delay the trial of Rancho Cucamonga City Councilman Rex Gutierrez this morning.
The trial, which was scheduled to commence Monday morning, addresses charges against Gutierrez alleging time card fraud stemming from Gutierrez’ tenure with the San Bernardino County Assessor’s Office under Bill Postmus.
Prosecutors sought as long a delay as possible, citing witness issues.
The court granted a seven week delay, pushing the trial date just prior to District Attorney Mike Ramos’ primary reelection on June 6th.
Gutierrez’s trial must commence no later than June 11th or all charges could face dismissal.
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I wonder if it would be out of line to suggest that Judge Rouse might be having some issues with the appearance of “corrupt”??
Ramos is about to commit the biggest crime in county history. He is going to dismiss the Gutierrez case after the election because the defense is in possession of evidence that will for once and for all out Ramos as the pervert that he really is. After it is safe, that evidence will never see the light of day. Ramos should resign.
Talk about a gross misrepresentation of justice!
What is this? The People’s Republic of San Bernardino County!
Hi brookshire,that offer of a hot coco still stands!you’re so cute when you go off!:) back to the topic,just when is the time for us all to grab our pitchforks and march to the fifth floor of the castle
Really…who speaks for the ones paying for all this criminal ‘RICO’ activity…this reset for the DA,screams of the worst type of corruption..subversion of the law…this is absolute garbage from the bench…kicks all this crap to a whole new level. Where in the hell is the FBI! Sheriff J.Brown is absent or looking the other way…Mr.Stout can you give us some direction as to what office in the DoJ might be contacted in reguard to these matters? Perhaps a judicial oversite panel,within the state?
Rouse is a stupid political hack that doesnt have to stand for election because he is retired. So he can inflict his stupidity upon everyone with impunity. This clown should be removed from the bench by the court or the presiding judge, who does stand for election, should be thrown off the bench by the voters.
Apparently Rouse was not on the bench this morning and a female Judge filled in and rubber stamped the DA’s request.
Q, any chance that was planned? Still stinks.
I am outraged. Ramos knows he has a bad case. People’s Republic of San Bernardino and Ramos is the dictator.
There was never any chance this was going to trial before the primary. The DA was going to find some reason or excuse to continue this trial. A “not guilty verdict” prior to the primary election would severely embarrass and hurt Ramos in the election. Yes, I said “election” and “trial” in same sentence because this was never about Rex. It is about Ramos getting reelected. Always has been. This is not about political corruption, it is down and dirty politics. The worst part is Ramos will win, he will get what he wants, which is to be reelected.
This is a DA that can go on TV and charge people with the crime of the century. Then without taking a breath state he doesn’t have sufficient evidence to charge them with the crimes at this time? Yet no one say’s or does a thing about it! If this is not abuse of power, we all need to apologize to Nixon and Hoover!
Ramos has successfully disabled many of his threats, Biane, Burum,Leggio and Erwin to name a few. Give him credit he is winning. Everyone is afraid of him. Everyone, except big brother. Big brother is watching what is going on and they have lots of people sending them information against Mr. Ramos. He is going to ultimately be forced to answer to several felony charges before this is over. His time will come, just not before the election!
This very well may have been planned.
Rouse is starting to take serious hits on the Erwin matter.
The book on Rouse in the PD’s office is he started out having a reputation for fairness. Now his reputation is one of being a shill for the DA.
If Rouse would have made the decision today it would have focused even more scrutiny on him.
For a judge to arbitrarily throw at a seven week continue is ridiculous, especially with no real cause.
There are very few judges in Central that have a reputation of independence.
Sad to say the least.
Thanks Q.
With all the things that have come forward in these blogs about corruption, it was bad enough with the DA and Sheriff being corrupt.
Even worse when members of the Public Defenders office started speaking up about issues within their departments.
The perception out of the Public Defender’s office they could not do their job, and work on behalf of their clients for fear that if they defeated the DA’s office in a case, it might cause them to be retaliated against for making Ramos look bad. Unbelievable??
The number of PD’s off for one reason or another. Then Boxer and Stringer join forces and try and tell the lawyers in this county they could not have one of their own defend them in a disciplinary issue.
Thank goodness that was defeated in court.
A civil attorney’s office being served with a search warrant that appears to be nothing more than a fishing expedition.
Now we have the clear appearance that some of our Judges might be corrupt. Judge Elwell and his issues on the Erwin case, now Rouse.
Both unions in the county corrupt as hell.
What next?
The Judge granting the continuance was Annmarie Pace, a former Deputy DA.
Also known as a rubber stamp for the DA.
Sounds like we need to get a list of Judges from the worst to the least and call it the 170.1 list.
Is it normal procedure for a judge to reschedule and/or continue your case for a year? Once this happened, my husband’s ex-wife served me with a partition action. Based on a new statement of an alleged “oral” agreement, the judge ordered my home sold and the proceeds split. How is this possible? This woman was awarded & received the community property home in their divorce settlement.
Why was this case allowed to continue? My husband is deceased, she remarried and resides in another state. My husband was a single man when he purchased his home. We financed the original loan, received the original note and I refinanced after his death.
Dick Larsen, Treasurer/Tax-Collector said, “I’m turning your case over to the District Attorney since “fraud” is involved.” Mr. Larsen retired a year early.
The San Bernardino Superior Court lost my husband’s original Will. I do not have children, yet the court refuses to remove this false case and/or information. How can a judge gave you two weeks to find another attorney and then approve both motions? Why would a judge ask if you received a copy of the ex-parte documents, knew what the hearing was about and then approve the action. This is not justice.
My home was sold for $295,000.00. The court appointed referee & his attorney received $65,000.00, his real estate agent received $18,500.00, she received $85,000.00, Wells Fargo Bank received $108,000.00, attorney for Wells Fargo $15,000.00 and I received $0. I also, continued to pay the mortgage until December 2009. The court ordered me to post a $40,000.00 bond to continue living in my home, which she was awarded for rent. It cost me $108,000.00 to appeal a case that was decided before it began.
To make matters worse, her attorney is the president of the San Bernardino Bar Association.
If this is not corruption and injustice, what is?