{"id":7775,"date":"2023-04-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:45:41","slug":"how-badly-are-the-courts-backed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/how-badly-are-the-courts-backed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW BADLY ARE THE COURTS BACKED UP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>America\u2019s courts had already been backlogged before the pandemic, which made things exponentially worse.&nbsp; Zoom trials worked out horribly. There was postponement after postponement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, all that backed up pressure seemed to burst the dams of the court. February is usually my first teaching month of any given year. This year I didn\u2019t teach a single class that month: court matters tied up all of February. So many of them postponed that I only took one case to trial that month. We won\u2026ending a five-year-ordeal for the defendant which had begun the day of the shooting, March 18, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you think it\u2019s bad from my end, wait until you see the horrible delays in the courts of Cook County, IL, as described recently in the Chicago Tribune, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/investigations\/ct-cook-county-court-delays-procedure-20230412-5rcqve7bafb3llt3onxv6nzkhm-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s probably behind a paywall. If that\u2019s bothersome, one take-away is a person who has been in custody for nine years, presumably innocent until proven guilty, awaiting trial for murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice delayed is, absolutely, justice denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s courts had already been backlogged before the pandemic, which made things exponentially worse.&nbsp; Zoom trials worked out horribly. There was postponement after postponement. In 2023, all that backed up pressure seemed to burst the dams of the court. February is usually my first teaching month of any given year. This year I didn\u2019t teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}