I don’t live in GA, I just follow their court cases, as well as those from around the country. The backlog in this county may be one of the worst in the country. I have not come across another one even close. Just my observation.
I think this article summarizes it well:
As of Feb. 15, the backlog was down to 58,353, Anderson reported. But the jail population continues to rise. It stood at 3,648 on Feb. 5, up nearly 100 from a month before, he said.
Of those, 1,767 people had not been indicted on at least one charge, Anderson said. While many of them may have already been indicted on other charges, “we believe there are 800-900 individuals in the jail that have no indictments,” Adams said.
Fulton County is making progress on eliminating its backlog of court cases, which should also help — but not fix — chronic jail overcrowding.
www.ajc.com
I will refer you to the article above:
District Attorney Fani Willis decides when and on what charges inmates are indicted, but her office is aware of the need to move jail-related cases through the system.
I’m not sure why you would exclude those courts. Other than bond hearings in the Magistrate Court, one of the Prosecutors has to be present for all hearings in those other courts.
Further, there is a major overcrowding issue in the mail and people are dying.
Antonio Brown, 23, was recently indicted for the brutal stabbing and killing of 77-year-old Ellen Bowles last December inside a gated community in Northside Atlanta. He faces a number of
www.albanyherald.com
article date 3/12/23
There are currently 15 judges in Fulton County that handle the majority of criminal cases. As of this writing, there are more than 4,000 pending felony cases. That’s an average of almost 300 per judge. There are 484 criminal cases that include murder charges, an average of nine per judge. In addition, there are some 268 cases involving sex crime charges. That is an average of 18 per judge. Cases affecting what’s known as the seven deadly charges — murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery — number 881, or 59 per judge.
That means if, starting next week, one pending felony case could be disposed of every week for 52 straight weeks by each judge and that no new cases appeared on their dockets (an impossibility, of course), it would take five years to clear their calendars.
patch.com
thegeorgiasun.com
