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: Grits for Breakfast

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Counties can save big bucks by eliminating jail time for people who're never charged with a crime if District and County Attorneys implement a "direct filing" system on the front end.El Paso DA Jaime Esparza gave a presentation this week at a conference of the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense about his county's upgraded information management system (DIMS), which allows police to immediately file cases with the DA instead of having prosecutors wait to evaluate the case until after the defendant sees a judge.Harris County, he said, had the first direct filing system in the state. (See excellent bloggerly descriptions of Harris County's system here and here.) In Harris, police must get every arrest pre-approved by prosecutors who are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days per year to evaluate cases at the time of arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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