Good Monday morning. How are your brackets? We’ve never filled out a bracket, but we love watching the tournament.
There’s a lot of big news in Court these days. A former president has two legal issues in the Big Apple today. The scheduling of his criminal trial, and the expiration of the grace period to post a half a billion-dollar bond for lying about his worth when obtaining loans. Remember when ex-presidents made news for flying to Hati to help the rebuilding process after a hurricane like Clinton and GHW Bush did? Those were the days.
But the big national news is not in NYC. It is here in our humble REGJB when the leaders of county court (Motto “Waiting for that next circuit vacancy“) issued their long awaited, much anticipated plan to ease the backlog in the jail division. Up next for the County Court intelligentsia: Reversing Global Warming In Three Easy Steps. *
Good morning. As most of you are aware, the Jail Division (Courtroom 6-5) is currently overwhelmed with a large number of cases. At the request of all parties that work in the jail division, we have devised a plan that we believe will alleviate this backlog. As such, effective Monday, April 8, 2024, the following plan will take effect:
On Mondays and Tuesdays, Judge Faber will handle the jail division reports from Courtroom 6-7. Calendars will begin at 9:00 a.m. (Zoom ID is 999-2126-3843). We chose Mondays and Tuesdays because these are the heavy trials days in Courtroom 6-5. This will allow Judge Correa (Courtroom 6-5) to focus on the trials, without the added responsibility of also having to call the jail report calendars. Any jail reports that need to be set on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday will continue to be heard by Judge Correa in Courtroom 6-5.
We are confident that this plan will be beneficial to all parties. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information.
Rumpole says: So the misdemeanor jail division is “overwhelmed” with a backlog of cases. Hmm… what else can be done? The are assigning new judges, shuffling work load to process the defendants like cattle in the line at the abattoir. What else could be done? Hmmm, that’s a tough one. What else could be done to process misdemeanor defendants WHO ARE IN JAIL ON SOME STUPID MISDEMEANOR…. Wow, this is a tough one. How to handle people in jail on misdemeanors. We are stumped. Maybe some readers smarter than us could suggest something.
So in the late 1980s the circuit court instituted a back-up division of judges that tried two separate cases a day- one from 9-12 and a different case from 1-5. This is kind of like that with a back up judge not having to do calendar.
When Judge Robert Scola was in Circuit Court he thought outside the box. He set almost all his calendar detritus on Fridays (other than emergency motions for bond and release and such) and started his trial at 9 am every day. That system seemed to work, and yet no one has tried to duplicate it.
* Wait. As DeSantis appointee wannabees, they cannot even acknowledge that global warming exists or risk spending the next thirty years saying “withhold and court costs…next case….”