The Solano County District Lawyer’s Workplace won’t retry the misdemeanor intercourse assault and battery allegations in opposition to a former Vacaville dentist, The Reporter has realized.
Deputy District Lawyer Mary Nguyen, after consulting with all the victims within the case, believed it was “in the best interest for all concerned to not retry the case,” based on an announcement issued by the DA’s Workplace.
The choice got here Monday, when Nguyen and the lawyer for David Evans Webb, appeared in Division 6 of Solano County Superior Courtroom in Fairfield. Webb, 47 and a resident of Pocatello, Idaho, was not current for the scheduled setting of a brand new jury trial in Decide Kelly J. Trujillo’s courtroom.
A jury final month discovered Webb not responsible on two misdemeanor battery counts, however held on 5 others, and the choose declared a mistrial.
He confronted allegations in connection to a number of accusations of sexual assault and battery in Solano County.
Via the course of a number of days of deliberations within the case, jurors on Feb. 13 first discovered Webb not responsible of sexual battery, willfully and and unlawfully touching the intimate a part of a lady, a misdemeanor. On Feb. 26, the jury discovered him not responsible of misdemeanor battery, of willfully and unlawfully utilizing power in opposition to a lady.
(The ladies have been recognized in courtroom paperwork, a public report, solely by their first identify and the preliminary of their final identify or by two initials for his or her first and final names. Additionally, The Reporter sometimes doesn’t totally establish victims in sexual assault allegation circumstances.)
Ultimately, jurors deadlocked on the opposite counts, extra allegations of misdemeanor sexual battery or misdemeanor battery.
When the jury rendered its ultimate choices on Feb. 26, well-known Vallejo felony protection lawyer Daniel J. Russo, substituting for Thomas M. Maas, represented Webb, who was within the courtroom.
The DA’s Workplace filed the felony case in opposition to Webb on Dec. 3, 2021, based on courtroom information.
Nevertheless, the information present Webb nonetheless faces allegations in not less than a half-dozen different civil circumstances, all that includes Jane Does as plaintiffs.
In a single case, Webb — whose apply, Northern California Facial and Oral Surgical procedure, closed a number of years in the past as accusations started to floor — faces a case administration convention at 9 a.m. April 16 in Division 7 of Solano County Superior Courtroom, Decide Tim Kam’s courtroom within the Previous Solano Courthouse, 580 Texas St., in Fairfield. Lawyer Charles M. Ray represents the plaintiffs. Benicia-based lawyer Randal M. Barnum represents Webb.
In one other case, which incorporates a number of different defendants, together with dental companies and a capital administration agency, Webb confronted a movement listening to in Division 7. He faces a case administration convention on April 16, and one other movement listening to on Might 30. San Francisco-based lawyer Mary E. Alexander represents the plaintiffs. Barnum represents Webb, and 5 different attorneys symbolize different named defendants.
Alexander has but to return a request for remark in regards to the case, however courtroom information present that her submitting — accusations specified by properly greater than 50 pages — cites allegations of sexual battery in opposition to dozens of Jane Does.
A web based search of the California Dental Board’s disciplinary actions confirmed that the suspension of Webb’s licenses to apply dentistry and facial beauty surgical procedure at his Alamo Drive workplace in Vacaville started April 7, 2023.
The Board’s information additionally confirmed that Webb additionally voluntarily surrendered on the similar time his license to apply dentistry in Pocatello, Idaho.
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