![]() ![]() ![]() “That’s why it’s so important, for me, to be here,” she said. Attorneys are able to drop in to discuss trial scheduling and other business. Kennedy explained it’s easier to work with prosecutors and the defense to move a case forward if she is physically sitting in court. “It’s my court reporter, it’s my coordinator, it’s the bailiffs” and others. “I know that in this court, we are working. Kennedy said it is “offensive” to her when commissioners broadly say judges aren’t working. She told KERA she and her staff physically returned to court two weeks after the pandemic hit because it was harder to get work done at home. State district judge Nancy Kennedy had above average dispositions in her felony court between January 2019 and April 2022. A judge’s roleĪs the data show, different felony judges handle their courts differently. The numbers, some judges say, don’t tell the full story of what they’re doing or how they fulfill their main job of making sure a case proceeds fairly for both sides. There were over 16,000 active pending misdemeanor cases. Dispositions have picked up substantially as the pandemic has waned, but several people who work in and around the criminal justice system say the backlog could take years to work through.ĭallas County had over 20,000 active pending felony criminal cases at the end of March, according to a state database. ![]()
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