A snafu that caused a significant delay in jury summonses going out, culminating in a judge dismissing a sexual battery case in Riverside County, stemmed from a “mechanical failure” that the vendor who prints the notices had no control over, Superior Court officials said Thursday, Dec. 15.District Attorney Mike Hestrin on Wednesday, Dec. 14, identified the occurrence as another example of poor decision-making by judges countywide, whom he said are booting cases without considering the impacts, elevating risks to public safety.The case of People v. Jose Cruz was dismissed by Superior Court Judge John Molloy at the Riverside Hall of Justice last week. It is one of more than 1,000 dismissals that have been recorded since the first half of October.The misdemeanor case was filed
