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The District Attorney’s Office also will continue to partner with the Second District Office to implement a Neighborhood Court pilot program in Goleta to serve as a restorative justice-based pre-filing diversion program for misdemeanor offenses and infractions.
The department’s preliminary budget is about $30.5 million, with about half of that funding coming from the general fund contributions.
The District Attorney’s Office requested a little more than $1 million in expansion requests for the upcoming budget year, including funding for an eSCARS electronic suspected child abuse report system a coordinator, two discovery clerks to manage data, 1.5 full-time employee positions for the post-conviction litigation unit, a data analyst and a digital storage system upgrade.
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Jury pools will be much smaller than in the past to accommodate 6-foot social distancing requirements. While the jury assembly building once accommodated 135 people sitting shoulder to shoulder, it now can hold approximately 15 to ensure safe separation. Instead of summoning 100 to 150 people per panel, plans call for each group to have 50 potential jurors.
For now, they will follow the 6-foot social distancing rule although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suggested that schools could employ physical separation of 3 feet.
The jury assembly building will be linked by video conference to the courtroom so that potential jurors can at least listen to the questioning process in hopes of speeding along the process once they enter the courtroom. With small groups in the courtroom for voir dire, court officials expect that will lengthen the jury selection process significantly.
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Driver Who Struck Woman, Infant During Police Pursuit Sentenced to State Prison
Ricardo Adan Sanchez receives a term of 19 years, 4 months in connection with the 2019 chase and crash
Ricardo Adan Sanchez, 38 of Santa Barbara was sentenced Monday to 19 years and 4 months in state prison after being convicted of driving a vehicle that struck a grandmother and her infant grandchild in a stroller in downtown Santa Barbara amid a police pursuit in 2019. (Peter Hartmann / Noozhawk photo) By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland
March 2, 2021
Ricardo Adan Sanchez
A Santa Barbara man was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months in state prison after being convicted of driving a vehicle that struck a grandmother and her infant grandchild in a stroller in downtown Santa Barbara amid a police pursuit in 2019, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.