A former Salinas High biology teacher is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old girl for the second time in six years.
Juan Govea was charged with felony sexual assault on a minor, five years after charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with the same minor were dismissed after victim refused to testify.
According to a 2017 interview with the Monterey County DA s Office, prosecutors are allowed two dismissals in a felony case, which opened up the door for the woman at the center of the case to change her mind down the road.
Now, new charges have been filed regarding his relationship with the same minor: Two counts of oral copulation with a minor.
We all know that 2020 has been an incredibly difficult yearâwe need not belabor that point. And neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor the deep inequalities it has exposed will go away the moment the clock strikes midnight. Finding a worthwhile ânew normalâ is going to take work and careful effort well into 2021 and beyond. But if youâre reading this, youâve made it this far. And that alone is worth celebrating.
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Just a few weeks into the pandemic, a group of local defense attorneys began wondering how the Monterey County Superior Court system planned to keep people who had business with the court safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. By people who had business with the court, Iâm referring not only to defendants and victims or litigants, but clerks and bailiffs, attorneys, judges, witnesses and juries. On a busy day, the Salinas courthouse has hundreds and maybe even a thousand people moving in and out.
Jury trials resumed in June after the initial pandemic shutdown, and for any given trial, hundreds of jurors are often called so attorneys have a sufficient number of potentials from which to choose. On one day, about six weeks ago, the line of jurors waiting to be called into the Salinas courthouse extended from the doors down the government plaza walkway to the County Administration Building, and they were out there for hours.