Covid 19: How it Affects Your Orange County Criminal Case

If your first court apparance was scheduled during the court closure then you need to watch the mail box closely so you will not get a bench warant.

As of March 17, 2020 in Orange County, the courts have closed due to Covid 19 and it affects on the population for public policy reasons. The reasoning is becuse they do not want people to gather and get sick. Jury trials entails gathering large groups of people together which causees transmission of the disease.

As of today April 6th, 2020, the court is still closed with no definitive opening date. The exception is that cases are being set out 60 days so there is a resonable expectation that we will see some movment in that tiem frame.

Court Closure information