The kid intercourse assault case towards former Vacaville lawyer James Glenn Haskell has grown extra complicated in current days, with the prosecutor submitting a number of new severe felony prices and a movement to extend bail to $1.5 million.
Haskell, 40, who appeared Tuesday morning in Division 23 for the bail-increase movement and to set a preliminary listening to, heard Choose John B. Ellis, after conferring with the attorneys within the case, order him to return at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 12 for the bail movement and the brand new hearing-setting within the Justice Middle in Fairfield.
Ellis additionally referred the matter to the Solano County Probation Division, which is able to concern a pretrial companies report, and ordered Haskell, beforehand an affiliate lawyer with the Reynolds Regulation agency in Vacaville, to undergo an interview with a probation officer.
Haskell, now unemployed and residing in Southern California, has bought his dwelling in north Vacaville and stays out of custody after posting preliminary bail quantities in Could that totaled $240,000. He's represented by Fairfield felony protection lawyer Thomas Maas.
The most recent developments within the case come after Deputy District Legal professional Shelly L. Moore filed her amended felony criticism on Sept. 15, including 5 extra counts, 4 felony prices alleging sexual abuse and one misdemeanor cost alleging bodily abuse of a younger sufferer, together with three of the sufferer’s siblings.
The brand new prices, primarily based on an interview with one of many kids, add to the unique 13 counts, 10 felonies and three misdemeanors. The preliminary felony allegations span sexual penetration by a international object whereas the minor sufferer was unconscious to corporal damage to a toddler to assault prone to produce nice bodily damage, together with strangulation.
The 5 new prices embrace 4 counts of a lewd act on a toddler and one rely of cruelty to a toddler by inflicting damage, by “bodily assaulting the boy’s penis,” crimes that allegedly occurred between October 2018 and October 2019, in keeping with wording within the amended criticism.
Moore’s revised criticism additionally indicated the youngsters have been “significantly weak” and alleged three issues: 1) The way by which the crime was carried out “signifies planning, sophistication, or professionalism; 2) that Haskell “took benefit of a place of belief or confidence to commit the offense”; and three) that the allegations “represent extra aggravating elements.”
In court docket on Sept. 15, Haskell once more pleaded not responsible to the brand new prices. If convicted at trial, he faces two life sentences, Moore informed The Reporter after the Tuesday morning continuing.
In his opposition to the bail improve movement, filed Monday, Maas argued that Haskell can't increase an extra $1.1 million in bail, saying the quantity “is tantamount to denial of bail,” due to this fact, a violation of the Eighth Modification, a reference to extreme bail. Maas additionally asserted that the elevated bail would violate the so-called “Humphrey resolution,” a proper within the state Structure for a defendant to acquire launch on bail from pretrial custody, besides in sure circumstances of capital crimes, violent or sexual felonies, and severe threats of violence.
Moreover, Maas famous Haskell, who has no prior felony report, has been fired from the Reynolds agency, is unable to get a job given the continued court docket proceedings, and has surrendered his passport to the court docket.
Maas instructed the defendant has had no contact with the victims since he was arrested and booked into Solano County Jail in Could.
Notably, Maas added in his submitting, one of many 4 kids, the boy, was faraway from short-term placement and was alleged to have dedicated sexual abuse towards one other minor, claiming throughout an interrogation that Haskell had “pulled and kicked his penis.” One other baby alleged Haskell “years in the past had repeatedly stroked her thigh.”
Courtroom data present that Haskell — a Brigham Younger College graduate, member of the California and District of Columbia bar associations and an Eagle Scout, in keeping with biographical info on the Reynolds workplace web site previous to its deletion — was arrested by Solano County Sheriff’s deputies on a warrant issued Could 3.
He posted $170,000 bail on Could 4, however court docket data additionally present that he seemed to be arrested once more, on Could 5, when he posted extra bail of $70,000, bringing the full to $240,000.
On Could 4, Haskell additionally was topic to a felony protecting order, to don't have any contact with 4 youths listed within the order.
The Solano County District Legal professional’s Workplace filed its criticism on Could 3, and the next day at arraignment Haskell — a Georgetown College Regulation Middle graduate who, at one time, was energetic within the Vacaville Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, and a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America — pleaded not responsible to all counts, denied all enhancements and the allegations, court docket paperwork point out.
On the Reynolds Regulation web site earlier than it turned identified that he had been arrested, Haskell was deemed an authorized specialist in property planning, probate and belief legislation, approved to advise on enterprise formation issues, partnerships, nonprofits, companies, drafting and reviewing contracts, wills, trusts, and sturdy powers of lawyer. His purchasers, in keeping with the web site, included ranchers and farmers, native academics, legislation enforcement officers, actual property builders and brokers, producers, professionals and retirees.
Haskell was raised in California but additionally lived in Alaska, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Washington, D.C. Earlier than attending legislation college, he labored on the U.S. Senate and at his grandfather’s cattle and grain exporting enterprise in Southern California.
Whereas attending the California Western Faculty of Regulation in San Diego, the place he graduated in 2009, he labored on the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of California, serving as a judicial extern, or researcher and author, for Choose Anthony J. Battaglia and on the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace.
Whereas volunteering for the Boys Scouts of America, Haskell served as a Scoutmaster and commissioner. Apart from his memberships in Rotary and the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce, he was a member of Will C. Wooden’s Pep Squad and the Play 4 All Park, amongst many different nonprofits.