Here's some news regarding criminal cases dismissed because of COVID: I wrote late on Jan. 3 that the 9th *still* hadn't ruled on en banc review in Judge Carney's first dismissal, nearly six months after it was submitted. On Jan. 6, the 9th finally decided: request denied. 
Notably, Trump 9th Circuit appointee Daniel Collins, joined by Danielle Forrester, dissented, writing: "We should not have let the Speedy Trial Act be counted among Covid’s latest casualties." The dissent is at the end of the now-amended opinion. bit.ly/3zMwqog
Judges Mary Murguia and Morgan Christen did the concurrence, and it reiterates the original ruling's harsh views of how Judge Carney handled this dismissal, saying Carney basically did it to get back at the other Central District judges for halting trials.
The concurrence also takes on the dissent: "The dissent, in hindsight, attempts to support its argument by diminishing the severity of the pandemic during this time, but the numbers speak for themselves." Find it on page 27. bit.ly/3zMwqog #appellatetwitter
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