{"id":49207,"date":"2025-11-12T05:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49207\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:18:15","slug":"former-fresno-judge-indicted-for-sexual-assault-files-motion-to-dismiss-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49207\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fresno judge indicted for sexual assault files motion to dismiss case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A former Fresno County judge indicted by a federal grand jury in Fresno on sexual assault and obstruction charges has now filed a motion to dismiss his case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in August, a five-count federal indictment was returned against former Superior Court Judge Adolfo Corona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 66-year-old is charged with sexually assaulting two court employees, making false statements to cover up his alleged crimes, and obstructing the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Action News first told you of this investigation last September and was in the courtroom when Corona pleaded not guilty to the county charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corona now also denies the federal indictment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If convicted, he faces 40 years in prison for the sexual assault and 20 years for each obstruction charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Fresno County judge indicted by a federal grand jury in Fresno on sexual assault and obstruction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[31869,31873,31870,112,622,114,113,22903,31872,31871,2531,1064],"class_list":{"0":"post-49207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-adolfo-corona","9":"tag-court-employees","10":"tag-federal-grand-jury","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-county","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-indicted","16":"tag-obstruction-charge","17":"tag-obstruction-charges","18":"tag-sexual-assault","19":"tag-superior-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}