9th Circuit’s mid-trial intervention prompts judge to vacate ruling on alleged sex trafficking victims

U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin was going to allow lawyers for a woman accused of sex trafficking to question the alleged victims about their arrests for prostitution.

Screenshots from the recent 9th Circuit filings in United States v. Xing.

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently intervened in a criminal sex trafficking trial underway in Los Angeles federal court, resulting in the judge reversing a key ruling about the relevance of the alleged victims’ prostitution arrests.

The rare mid-trial appellate involvem…