Interesting stuff, for those who care to wade through it. (For instance, acc. to the number-crunchers, less than 1% of Texas criminal cases are resolved by trial nowadays ... so that burned-out "plea-a-palooza" feeling is not just your imagination after all!)

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Report (.pdf)

(warning: the 62-page report may take a while to load up)

about this 1% (the gang in the government is no different, eh mr. gilleland? ) with the increase in filing, but the decrease in trials, does this statistic mean that prosecutors are getting better at case selection, that police are getting better at working up their cases, or (as i'm sure someone will want to spin it) that defense attorneys aren't fighting enough? and dude, what's up with Hill county, 4,000 cases filed in the one district court?

p.s. - i love how the lee county courthouse sketch is placed as a division between the appellate courts and trial courts. it's so to- kill-a-mockingbird of them.

We did manage to get our first County Court at Law beginning Sept. 1st this year.

glad to hear it! 4,000 cases, man you guys really work hard. good job!