In just two short years, Kane County has reduced by half the backlog of people languishing in jail for more than a year awaiting trial. Meanwhile, in Cook County, delays have only worsened.
To be sure, Kane County has a tenth of the population of Cook, but Kane
“We all saw an end goal in mind, and we wanted to get to that end goal,” said Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser. After all, the judges each juggle roughly 500 cases, a dozen or two of which might come before them on a typical day. Usually that’s for short “status” hearings, held every month or two, when attorneys can update the judge on what they’ve done to get the case ready for trial and what they need more time to accomplish.Before the tracking system, it was easy for cases to drag as judges OK’d multiple seemingly innocuous requests for delays.
At each morning’s call of court cases, when attorneys didn’t meet deadlines, the judges pressed for explanations and worked up specific goals to be met by future hearing dates. Courthouse players said judges still approve delays that are unavoidable, but otherwise attorneys are expected to meet deadlines.
The county also has installed a faster evidence-sharing computer system to speed up the first phase of a case and has released more defendants on electronic monitoring, which reduces the number of people held behind bars. make courtrooms more tense at times. But judges say they try to limit any courtroom drama by engaging with attorneys without belittling them.
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