The November trial date for a former Benicia Unified school teacher accused of child molestations will go ahead, as scheduled, for now, in Solano County Superior Court, but not before a Solano County Superior Court judge considers a motion to quash information about one or more of the alleged victims.

Matthew Joseph Shelton , 43, who faces 12 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts on four children under 14, appeared Monday in Department 23 in Vallejo for a trial management conference in the Justice Building. There Judge John B. Ellis substituted for Bryan J. Kim, court records show.

Shelton remains out of custody on a pretrial services contract. He is represented by Napa-based attorney Amanda I. Bevins. Deputy District Attorney Barry Shapiro leads the prosecution.

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