The former member of the municipal council of El Cajon Bessmon “Ben” Kalasho and his wife were back in front of the San Diego Superior Court this week by trying to convince a judge to delay a pair of 8 -day prison periods that they received in a civil affair last year.
It didn’t work.
The defendants of husband and wife, who represented themselves last month in an unrelated trial for the application of code deposited by the city of El Cajon, must be transformed into a Superior Court of San Diego on June 9 to begin to purge their sentence.
The Kalashos, who also represent themselves in the long -standing civil affair accusing them of defamation and other allegations, asked judge Wendy M. Behan to postpone the guard time in the light of what they said to be new proofs.
The judge heard the argument during a hearing on Wednesday and rejected the request.
If the defendants do not go to court next month, they are subject to an arrest and incarceration each time they come into contact with the police – as well as additional sanctions for non -comparison.
The Kalashos, who left San Diego several years ago and who are now making their house in North Carolina and Dubai, did not respond to a request for comments.
Ben Kalasho was elected to the municipal council of El Cajon in 2016, but resigned in 2019 in the midst of a burst of criticism from colleagues and voters of the Council. Among other things, Kalasho voted on issues involving members of a group of for -lucrative companies that he created.
The couple was continued in 2017 and accused of defamation and other statements from a restaurant, a former beauty queen and lawyer for San Diego, Lina Charry. More specifically, they were accused of having created false publications on social networks that damaged the reputation of the complainants.
The other complainants settled their complaints or won judgments, but Charry refused to settle his. Last year, she convinced a judge that the Kalashos did not argue in good faith and that the accused were sentenced to eight days in the County of San Diego.
But the couple did not appear and mandates were delivered for their arrests. The office of the prosecutor of the city of San Diego, which had the power to exercise the mandates due to the offense in a courtroom in San Diego, has never moved to enforce the bench mandates.
Kalasho won the stay of the mandates so that he could represent himself in a civil dispute brought by the city of El Cajon, who accused him of making unforeseen improvements to a house he has on Cliffdale Road.
A decision in this case has not yet been made. The judge asked the two parties to submit memories later this month, and a decision will be issued after that.
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California Daily Newspapers
