The article below highlights the steps some states are taking to cope with budget shortfalls to include delaying jury trials.
Come February, the red-brick Rockingham County Courthouse, one of New Hampshire's busiest, will arraign criminal suspects, process legal motions and otherwise deal with murders, mayhem and contract disputes. What it won't do is hold jury trials.
The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or disrupted in state courtrooms across the country.
The economic storm has come to this: Justice is being delayed or disrupted in state courtrooms across the country.
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