https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/03/jury-returns-guilty-verdicts-on-all-counts-in-santa-clara-county-sheriff-corruption-trial/ > SAN JOSE — A jury reached guilty verdicts on all counts in the civil corruption trial of now-former Santa Clara County sheriff Laurie Smith, capping a monthlong trial that Smith nearly upended with her abrupt resignation from office, though a judge ultimately ordered the case to continue. > The six guilty verdicts were delivered Thursday afternoon and came at the end of juror deliberations that began Oct. 28.