CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A Middletown man was in court Tuesday for a hearing to set a date for his sentencing in an indecent exposure case as well as to schedule further hearings related to new charges against him.

Daniel Laine Wood, 29, appeared briefly Tuesday morning before Judge Stephen Hedstrom in the Lake County Superior Court's Clearlake division.

Wood was convicted last month of misdemeanor indecent exposure and annoying or molesting a child for an August 2010 case in which he exposed himself to two 12-year-old girls, as Lake County News has reported.

Last week the Lake County Sheriff's Office reported that in the wake of Wood's arrest late last year information from several new cases began surfacing.

That has resulted in as many as 15 new charges involving crimes against children under age 14, the agency reported.

Wood, represented by attorney Jason Sherlock, went before Hedstrom for the scheduling of his sentencing in the case from last August as well as a preliminary examination readiness conference in the new case.

Hedstrom asked if Deputy District Attorney Ed Borg and Sherlock had attempted to discuss the case in order to reach a settlement.

Sherlock said they had, but added, “At this point we have not reached a resolution.”

Borg estimated a preliminary hearing in the case will take two to three hours.

Hedstrom ordered Wood to appear at 8:15 a.m. April 29 in Department 2 in Lakeport for the setting of the sentencing hearing and the preliminary examination and assignment.

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