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Shortage of county jurists leads L.A. judges to take on bigger workload and commute

By Jason Siegel

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With a shortage of 30 judicial officers, Antelope Valley Courthouse in Lancaster has been forced to rely on visiting judges in Edmon and downtown Los Angeles, the L.A. Times reported.

The jurists taken on a huge workload to help prevent a backlog of cases and some judges have delayed or given up on their vacation as a result.

Civil court judges are taking on 1,000 cases each - double the amount taken by other L.A. County judges - and some criminal court judges are handling 90 matters a day, plus a jury trial, the Times reported.

"L.A. judges' commuting sentences," Los Angeles Times

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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