The highlight of this week in fixing Southern California Warrants was in Vista, California, or Superior Court of San Diego County, Northern Division, or as it is officially, officially known, the North County Regional Center. The client had multiple warrants, all in San Diego County, at two different Court houses, Vista and South Bay (Chula Vista), all for misdemeanors.
This case required more than the usual amount of groundwork. First, the client didn’t know which Court locations inside the County had his warrants, so last week I went to central San Diego and looked him up in the search terminal. Then I had to go Vista. In Vista, you have to calendar the warrants a week in advance. Next I had to go to South Bay, where the rules required one warrant to be set “only on Fridays, in the morning” and the other “either in the afternoon of Monday, Wednesday and Friday or the morning of Tuesday and Thursday.” Additionally, one of the South Bay warrants can only be added on the day of the hearing, and the other needed to be prescheduled.
Yesterday was the first court date, in Vista, where the Judge cleared a decade old DUI warrant and actually terminated probation, meaning that the client is done with this case, no warrant, no more probation, nothing. FINISHED. It was a triumph, and unexpected, since the Judge very easily could have demanded the client fly out from Texas to clear the warrant. The client was very happy.