Sentencing for a former Rohnert Park police officer, who was convicted by a federal jury in July of posing as a government agent to steal cash and cannabis from drivers, is delayed until at least April 15 to give his new attorney time to review the case.
Judge Maxine Chesney granted Joseph Huffaker’s latest reprieve Tuesday, Feb. 3, in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. She issued an order behind the scenes one day before the matter was to be publicly discussed in court.
Sentencing had been pushed back numerous times since November after Huffaker fired his defense attorney in the trial. Huffaker was on tap for sentencing Jan. 21 and Chesney gave him one last chance to find a new attorney on the condition counsel wouldn’t need much time to review the case.
On Monday, he retained Karen Landau of Walnut Creek and she requested sentencing be rescheduled to April. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not argue against the request…