Hearing on Politician’s Drug Charges Delayed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Both sides in the drug case against a councilwoman agreed Thursday to postpone until June 16 a hearing on whether to retry Rita Rogers, 55, on crack cocaine charges.
A Riverside County jury deadlocked in March on whether Rogers conspired with her son to make and sell crack cocaine.
The same jury returned guilty verdicts on all three counts against the councilwoman’s 30-year-old son, Joseph Raymond Rogers, including charges of manufacturing and possessing crack cocaine with the intent to sell. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
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