District Attorney Jeff Rosen said a recent gathering of top prosecutors revealed how the South Bay is struggling more than its neighbors to finish criminal cases.
SAN JOSE — A running backlog of criminal cases is a much bigger problem in the South Bay than it is in neighboring jurisdictions, with Santa Clara County recovering more slowly from a raft of pandemic-fueled closures and restrictions, according to officials in the local criminal-justice system.
“We have a crisis,” Rosen added. “When I was trying murder cases , we told the families of murder victims, this process will take one to two years. We tell victims five years now.” The court continued: “We expect the downward trend to continue, despite significant challenges in running open courtrooms; we are limited by the shortage of sheriff’s deputies to staff courtrooms and we still experience COVID-19-related absences of judges, court staff, deputies, attorneys and parties.”
County Public Defender Molly O’Neal said the backlog has meant her attorneys continue to be left waiting in getting their clients assigned to a trial department to move their cases forward, and she has affirmed with her own peers in neighboring counties that the ability to get to trial or resolve cases is better than Santa Clara County.
In Santa Clara County, “there probably should have been a concerted effort to get together and get those cases settled and get back to business, and that didn’t happen,” O’Neal said.
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