There's enough evidence to try an East Bay lawyer on charges that she brought drugs into the Sonoma County courthouse last year and resisted efforts to search her.
That's what a judge ruled Tuesday following a preliminary hearing for Shell Kaminsky, 31, of Brentwood, who was arrested July 17 after prosecutors said she tried to pass through security with methamphetamine and another drug among her belongings.
Kaminsky was initially charged with two felonies but Judge Patrick Broderick reduced the counts to misdemeanors after hearing testimony from a courthouse deputy and a private security officer who were involved in her arrest.
She also was held to answer on a separate misdemeanor that accuses her of avoiding screening at court's the north entrance. Deputies said she fled to a parking lot after security guards discovered the drugs in a purse or brief case.
Kaminsky was representing a defendant in an Santa Rosa car show assault at the time of her arrest.
The judge ordered her to return to court Feb. 7 to set a trial date.
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