RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The criminal trial of Mercedes Carrera and her husband on multiple child sexual abuse charges has been scheduled to begin July 17, according to court documents.
Judge Katrina West has now scheduled a new pretrial date for June 23.
A pretrial hearing for the case was held last year in July, with an Oct. 3 date agreed upon for the beginning of the jury trial. Since then, however, the trial date has been repeatedly vacated and postponed.
Carrera and her husband, Jason Whitney, were arrested after a police raid of their Rancho Cucamonga home on Feb. 1, 2019.
By the new pretrial date, they will have been in the county jail awaiting trial for four and half years, held initially without bail and later, after they had liquidated their assets and had no source of income due to their incarceration, with bail set at $2 million for each.
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