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Reverse Pressure. The principal impact came in Dade County (Miami), which suffered from the worst backlog. Two months ago the state received a new shock. A middle-aged busboy accused of molesting a ten-year-old boy was set loose when the time limit ran out. In fact, since March more than 100 defendants in the county, including two accused of assault with intent to murder, have been freed. The public pressure that started the train of events has turned massively against the speedy-trial deadlines...
...join the majority in reaching a unanimous verdict. Fearing a divided jury in an assault and robbery case, District of Columbia Judge Oliver Gasch recently invoked elements of the Allen charge. When the jury could not agree, the judge complained to the jurors of the court's backlog and added that retrying the case before another jury "just doesn't make sense to me." A verdict of guilty followed. The defendant appealed, arguing that the judge had forced a decision. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the defendant and then went a step...
...over the arena from the bench. In San Francisco, as part of an innovative antidote to court congestion, a handful of experienced trial attorneys are getting the opportunity to find out. Acting as judges for a day, or sometimes two or three days, they are helping to attack the backlog of civil cases...
Inflation Down. Many other factors should contribute to the G.N.P. surge. Eckstein predicts that businessmen wil increase their inventories by $9.5 billion v. $3.5 billion this year. Taking advantage of the investment tax credit, businessmen should also lift their capital spending by $7 billion. And because of a backlog in demand, a rise in the housing industry should add a further $6 billion to G.N.P. growth. Besides all this, state and local government spending should go up at normal rates of about $13 billion...
...faith. Attica prisoners conducted a non-violent sitdown strike last year, protesting low workshop wages and high prison-commissary prices, that led to a regulation cutting back on commissary profits. Last winter, prisoners won the right to be represented by lawyers at parole hearings, which has resulted in a backlog of hearings that, paradoxically, is a new source of grievance...