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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Ind. Courts - Clark ponders adding 2 judges
Alex Davis of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today:
Clark County would get two new judges -- giving it a total of six full-time positions -- under a plan that could be put to a local vote as soon as next week.Raymond "Monty" Snelling, a member of the County Council, said he hopes to introduce a resolution in support of the idea at the council's meeting Monday.
"Right now our courts are overloaded," he said in an interview. "We need to step back and look at every option." * * *According to the Indiana Judicial Service Report, Clark County's four elected judges and its part-time magistrate had the second-heaviest caseload of the state's 92 counties last year.
The only county with a bigger load was Howard, which got a new judge in January.
Similar figures show that Clark County's judges were the third-busiest in Indiana in 2004, behind Howard and Floyd counties.
The caseload information is based on the number of available judges and the number of cases, with certain serious crimes, such as murder, being given greater weight.
There have been several attempts in recent years to expand court resources in Clark County. In late 2004 an emergency expenditure of $20,000 was approved to clear up a paperwork backlog.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 4, 2006 10:40 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts