A CBS News investigation has uncovered a massive backlog of court cases that has delayed progress on hundreds of thousands of criminal cases across the United States.
CBS News obtained and analyzed data from courts and district attorneys' offices in more than a dozen major American cities and found"pending" criminal cases jumped from 383,879 in 2019, just before thepandemic, to 546,727 in 2021. In California, New York, Florida and Michigan, the number of"pending" cases in 2021 totaled nearly 1.3 million.
The suspect is accused of running a stop sign and hitting Barrett Grabow as he crossed an intersection on his way home from a party just before midnight on February 23, 2018. Prosecutors say the driver, who has a history of criminal convictions, sped away from the scene with a severely injured Grabow trapped halfway through the car's windshield, before pulling over, dragging Grabow into the car through the broken glass and dumping his body on a sidewalk.
Jim and Colette Grabow have been waiting nearly five years for the trial of the man accused of killing their son, Barrett, in a hit-and-run in San Jose, California."This is absolutely a crisis," said Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who is prosecuting the Grabow case."There's not accountability in our court system because cases are not moving, and we need to break through this kind of thinking and have an all-hands-on deck approach.
San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju says the struggle to catch up with cases that were postponed during the pandemic is only part of the problem. He says courts around the country are also coping with staffing shortages and the lack of adequate space to hold trials."Bring in retired judges, bring in whoever you can," said Raju."Other spaces need to be made available.
"We're doing the best we can," said Dallas County, Texas, Superior Court Judge Stephanie Huff, whose jurisdiction is also struggling with a major case backlog. "We have an emergency," New York Governor Kathy Hochul told CBS News."This is an indictment on all of us as a society. The wheels of justice have spun to a halt."
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