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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Ind. Courts - More on "Floyd County's newest judge a history maker"
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 29, 2008, Chris Morris reports today in the New Albany News & Tribune. Some quotes:
Judge Maria Granger is still trying to get used to her new title, but not the job that awaits her on the fourth floor of the City-County Building.Granger officially opened Floyd County’s new court — Superior Court No. 3 — Monday morning. Her fourth-floor office and new court are nearly complete, and her staff of four is in place. On Jan. 20, she will conduct her first session. * * *
The court will be the first in the building to work with Odyssey, a new state judicial program, Granger said. Superior Court No. 3 will work with domestic cases and protective orders. The court also will handle 25 percent of C felony or above cases, and 33 percent of the murder cases in the county.
Superior Court No. 2 Judge Glenn Hancock will have the outside wall of his court replaced with a soundproof one once work on Granger’s court is complete.
“You can hear everything out in the hallway. Just normal conversation,” Hancock said of the current wall.
Hancock was one of the visitors to wish Granger well Monday morning. He said a new court should help ease the case load.
“It’s bound to help,” he said. “I think the jail overcrowding is due to people waiting for trial. I hope the new court will help quickly.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 7, 2009 05:08 PM
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