Why does justice take longer in Dallas County?

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Why does justice take longer in Dallas County?
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In Dallas County, someone accused of a crime can wait months and sometimes years in jail for a case to be resolved due to chokepoints in the criminal justice...

Those accused of a crime in Dallas County can wait longer for their case to be resolved as they remain in several queues in the criminal justice process.

County commissioners have been reviewing underlying reasons for a growing backlog of felony cases, uncovering problems largely exacerbated by the pandemic. Commissioner John Wiley Price has spearheaded these conversations, with the end goal of reducing a jail population nearing capacity. The jail costs the county aboutHere are four bottlenecks in the local justice system previously examined byThere is a large backlog of active and pending felony cases that has flooded the local justice system.

The state’s Office of Court Administration tracks how many cases are filed and how many are resolved in each county. Dallas County felony court’s annual clearance rate was 88% in 2022, during which time 41,238 cases were filed, added or had motions to revoke filed and 36,275 cases were disposed. By clearing fewer cases than the total number of cases disposed, courts are adding to the backlog.

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