Ex-Capo chief's trial on indefinite hold
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Litigation | Superintendents
Scott Martindale, The Orange County Register
The court trial for
indicted ex-Capistrano Unified Superintendent James
Fleming and a
former assistant superintendent has been put on indefinite hold
while the parties await a decision from a state appeals court
concerning dismissal of some of the charges against them. Orange
County Superior Court Judge William Froeberg in February dismissed
two of the three charges against Fleming, and one of the two
charges against former Assistant Superintendent Susan McGill. Both
appealed Froeberg's decision to a state appeals court, asking that
the remaining charges also be dismissed. Prosecutors, meanwhile,
also appealed Froeberg's decision to the higher court, asking that
the dismissed charges be reinstated…