SANTA ANA—An Orange County Superior Court judge may decide June 11 whether to grant a request by prosecutors to gut a criminal case against a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend alleging the sexual assaults of at least seven women.
The politically tinged case against Ds, has been troubled from the beginning when it was filed in the heat of the campaign between then-Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and Todd Spitzer, who defeated him in November.
