San Francisco Superior Court dismissed 70 misdemeanor cases last week because they had taken too long to go to trial.
The dismissals came about a month after an appellate court ruled that a San Francisco Superior Court judge abused his discretion in March when he cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to deny a motion to dismiss a case that had taken two-and-a-half years to go to trial.
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