A Solano County Superior Court jury last month found a former Vacaville oral surgeon not guilty on two misdemeanor battery counts, but hung on five others, and the judge declared a mistrial.
In a brief Thursday interview with the prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Mary Nguyen confirmed that the DA’s Office has not yet decided whether to retry the case against David Evans Webb, 47.
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However, court records show Judge Kelly J. Trujillo, who presided over the case, scheduled pretrial matters and setting of a jury trial at 8:30 a.m. March 17 in Department 6 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.
Webb faced allegations in connection to multiple accusations of sexual assault and battery in Solano County.
Through the course of several days of deliberations in the case, jurors on Feb. 13 first found Webb not guilty of sexual battery, willfully and and unlawfully touching the intimate part of a woman, a misdemeanor. On Feb. 26, the jury found him not guilty of misdemeanor battery, of willfully and unlawfully using force against a woman.
(The women were identified in court documents, a public record, only by their first name and the initial of their last name or by two initials for their first and last names. Also, The Reporter typically does not fully identify victims in sexual assault cases.)
In the end, jurors deadlocked on the other counts, more allegations of misdemeanor sexual battery or misdemeanor battery.
When the jury rendered its final decisions on Feb. 26, well-known Vallejo criminal defense attorney Daniel J. Russo, substituting for Thomas M. Maas, represented Webb, who was in the courtroom.
The DA’s Office filed the criminal case against Webb on Dec. 3, 2021, according to court records.
However, the records show Webb still faces allegations in at least a half-dozen other civil cases, all featuring Jane Does as plaintiffs.
In one case, Webb — whose practice, Northern California Facial and Oral Surgery, closed several years ago as accusations began to surface — faces a case management conference at 9 a.m. April 16 in Department 7 of Solano County Superior Court, Judge Tim Kam’s courtroom in the Old Solano Courthouse, 580 Texas St., in Fairfield. Attorney Charles M. Ray represents the plaintiffs. Benicia-based attorney Randal M. Barnum represents Webb.
In another case, which includes several other defendants, including dental corporations and a capital management firm, Webb faces a motion hearing at 9 a.m. Friday in Department 7, a case management conference on April 16, and another motion hearing on May 30. San Francisco-based attorney Mary E. Alexander represents the plaintiffs. Barnum represents Webb, and five other attorneys represent other named defendants.
Alexander last week did not return a request for comment about the case, but court records show that her filing — accusations laid out in well more than 50 pages — cites allegations of sexual battery against dozens of Jane Does.
An online search of the California Dental Board’s disciplinary actions showed that the suspension of Webb’s licenses to practice dentistry and facial cosmetic surgery at his Alamo Drive office in Vacaville began April 7, 2023.
The Board’s records also showed that Webb also voluntarily surrendered at the same time his license to practice dentistry in Pocatello, Idaho.
Court records on Thursday indicated that Webb has a P.O. Box address in Pocatello.
