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Thursday, October 07, 2010
Ind. Courts - Yet more on "Magistrates failing to keep up with case loads"
Updating this list of earlier ILB entries, Bob Kasarda of the NWI Times reports today in a story that begins:
VALPARAISO | An Oct. 1 deadline has passed without Porter County Magistrate James Johnson catching up on a backlog of cases pending in his court.Johnson, who was out sick for nine days since being given the deadline a couple months ago, has completed much of the work and has been given a couple extra weeks to wrap up the job, according to his supervisor, Porter Superior Judge Roger Bradford.
Bradford said he and temporary judges will cover the current caseload in Johnson's court over the next couple of weeks.
The judges had been relying on attorney Mary DeBoer to hear the new cases while Johnson worked on the backlog.
Bradford said once the work on the backlog is complete, he assumes Johnson will return to his post in the court with a plan in place to avoid future delays in cases.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 7, 2010 08:26 AM
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