COURT HEARING DELAYED.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday for two Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. school board members has been delayed until after the November election. Hart High School District board President Gloria Mercado, 48, and College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. board member Bruce Fortine, 63, are charged with embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. and misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of public funds stemming from their work for the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . Mercado faces re-election Nov. 6. Both have pleaded not guilty, arguing that the charges were politically motivated. Deputy District Attorney Arunas Sodonis said the election had no bearing on the court schedule. The delay was a result of additional work that needed to be done between the two attorneys outside the court and the defense's desire to bring in another witness. Charges were filed against the married couple in December 1999 and relate to activities the pair conducted in 1998, the same year they were married. The preliminary hearing is now scheduled for Nov. 15, three days following the election. ``I don't think the attorney is purposely delaying,'' Sodonis said. |
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