Today I cleared a warrant in Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino County) for a client who lives in Arizona. He was an Uber driver, and last month a warrant appeared on his background check. He had been given a misdemeanor ticket for possession of a drug paraphernalia in 2019. He went to Court on the date from his ticket and no case had been filed. After that, he moved out of town. The warrant didn’t appear on his record until last month, apparently the D.A. waited almost a year before filing the case.
San Bernardino is back to allowing attorney’s to calendar warrants on the same day. I drove out there, added the case onto the calendar, and then went to Court- which was outside! The Judge agreed to dismiss the case if the client goes to 10 NA meetings before November 11th, the warrant was cleared and the client is back to work driving for Uber! It cost him 500 dollars and took three days.