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NACDL Issues Report on Misdemeanor Courts

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Tresa Baldas writes the web-only report, "NACDL report blasts misdemeanor courts," for National Law Journal.Misdemeanor courts are a waste of time and money. So claims the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, which on Tuesday issued a first-of-its-kind national report on the status of misdemeanor courts across the country. The report, which involved 18 months' worth of research at courts in seven states, concluded that state and local governments are wasting millions of tax dollars to prosecute petty offenses, such as curfew and open container violations, loitering and feeding the homeless. The report found that taxpayers are footing the bill for more than 10 million misdemeanor prosecutions per year, paying an average of $60 a day, per inmate, to incarcerate misdemeanor defendants...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).