The Tribune found concrete steps officials could take to ease court backlogs, from actually tracking why delays happen to fully implementing long-promised case management protocols.
The Leighton Criminal Court Building houses an enormous legal machine with dozens of interlocking parts. The machinery can get jammed at every stage of a case and often does. A decade ago, the court systems in both New York City and Chicago were so backlogged that hundreds of people had been sitting in jail for more than two years while awaiting trial.
Chief Judge Timothy Evans declined to be interviewed about the persistent delays in the court system he has run since 2001 or to directly answer the Tribune’s written questions. Buthis office said he and other courthouse players are doing their best to be swift and fair in a busy and complex system. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, shown at the Cook County Jail complex on April 4, 2023, is among the few politicians who have regularly complained about a problem that leaves some people lingering for a decade or more in his jail.
“In Cook County, it is more difficult to get data than anywhere else,” said Tom Geraghty, a Northwestern University professor emeritus who has studied courts around the world. “And I’ve worked in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malaysia, a number of Third World or developing countries, where the data is much more readily available than it is in Cook County.”
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