Jury selection has been completed in the criminal trial of Stockton Unified School District board member AngelAnn Flores, with 12 jurors seated following selections that took place this week.
Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday, June 17, at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 6D. The trial will address allegations of misused public funds and a false insurance claim, while the defense maintains that the credit card transactions were authorized under district policy .
The case resumed this week after Judge Richard Mallett, during Tuesday’s motions in limine hearing, denied a motion to dismiss the charges from Flores’s defense. That filing stated that the grand jury was not provided critical exculpatory evidence—specifically, documentation for 20 credit card purchases and reimbursement claims related to travel to Oregon, Long Beach and Monterey
In response to the defense motion—which argued that the grand jury “never received a full accounting of the funds allegedly misappropriated” and was given what the defense called a “false number”—the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office countered that “the defense in their motion has not raised any viable issues” and that any omitted evidence did not prejudice the defendant significantly.
Flores’s attorney, former District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar, said in a call to Stocktonia that the section 995 motion reflected a judicial review mechanism due to the restrictive nature of grand jury proceedings. She maintained the prosecution’s failure to present the full fiscal breakdown prevented jurors from making an informed decision and emphasized that the dismissal of the motion does not alter their defense strategy.
“We have a vigorous defense to all of the charges,” Salazar said.
Flores, who has pleaded not guilty, faces two counts of embezzlement by a public officer and one count of making false insurance claims stemming from an April 2024 grand jury indictment. Prosecutors allege she improperly used a district credit card and submitted a fraudulent insurance claim to the district.
In March, Stocktonia published the search warrant affidavit that launched the investigation; it included broader allegations of Brown Act violations and political influence but ultimately led to charges of embezzlement and insurance fraud.
With the jury now seated, the trial is scheduled to begin with opening statements on Tuesday, June 17, at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 6D. Proceedings will address the charges outlined in the indictment, with testimony and evidence expected from both the prosecution and defense in the weeks ahead.