Judiciary
Retired decide sexually assaulted assistant in courthouse stairwell, lied to investigators, federal indictment says
August 25, 2025, 3:57 pm CDT
A retired superior courtroom decide in Fresno County, California, has been charged in a federal indictment with an alleged sexual assault of a judicial assistant after which mendacity about that assault and a couple of second incident. (Picture by Matthew Area, CC-BY-SA-3.0, by way of Wikimedia Commons)
A retired superior courtroom decide in Fresno County, California, has been charged in a federal indictment with an alleged sexual assault of a judicial assistant after which mendacity about that assault and a couple of second incident.
Retired Decide Adolfo Corona, 66, is charged in an Aug. 21 indictment, in accordance with an Aug. 22 press launch and reporting by Legislation.com, Bloomberg Legislation and the Fresno Bee.
He’s charged with deprivation of the appropriate to bodily integrity below colour of legislation, false statements with the intent to hinder legislation enforcement, and tried alteration of a doc to impair its use in an official continuing.
Each incidents allegedly occurred on the Fresno County Courthouse in California.
The indictment alleges that Corona sexually assaulted a judicial assistant in a stairwell in March 2024 and made false statements about it throughout an administrative investigation and a felony investigation by the FBI.
He’s accused of falsely telling an investigator that the girl grabbed his telephone whereas they had been within the stairwell and added her cellphone quantity to it. He’s additionally accused of falsely telling FBI brokers that he led the girl right into a stairwell as a result of he was going to return upstairs to work after giving the girl a present.
Corona truly penetrated the girl along with his fingers with out her consent after which left the courthouse, the indictment alleges.
The indictment alleges that Corona additionally made false statements to the FBI throughout an investigation of a December 2023 incident involving one other judicial assistant who was discovered alone in his chambers together with her pants unbuttoned after passing out. Corona had been alone with the girl for about two hours, and she or he was discovered about half-hour after he left, the indictment says.
Corona had claimed that he left the girl alone in his chambers whereas he drove to a motorbike dealership to select up his bike. Previous to his statements, he had referred to as the dealership and requested an worker to falsify information for the date that he picked up his bike to coincide with the date of the incident in his chambers, the indictment alleges.
Corona was previously indicted for the alleged sexual assault by a grand jury in Fresno County, in accordance with the information experiences. He pleaded not responsible.
A lawyer for Corona, Margarita Martinez-Baly, informed Legislation.com that Corona will “positively” plead not responsible to the federal expenses.
Corona retired in April 2024 after serving as a decide for greater than 20 years.
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