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.
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…