While no local federal judges or prosecutors will be allowed to participate, the trial of a woman accused of violating her son’s protective order will remain in Fresno.

The location of Shana Gaviola’s trial for an interstate violation of her son’s protective order had remained in limbo. Gaviola accused a prosecutor of “hitting” on her during a chance encounter at a Fresno bar in 2023.

Gaviola’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss. Fresno-based Judge Jennifer L. Thurston denied the motion, but chastised the attorney, Michael Tierney, for his alleged behavior. She also agreed to move the venue to the San Francisco-based federal court.

However, the chief judge for the Eastern District of California — a judicial district spanning the eastern half of the state from the Oregon border through K

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