A proposal by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson to contribute $1.5 million to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office would cut a backlog that built up during the COVID-19 pandemic, a top aide said Tuesday.
) - A proposal by Mayor Sandy Stimpson to contribute $1.5 million to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office would cut a backlog that built up during the COVID-19 pandemic, a top aide said Tuesday.Under the plan, the city would give the DA’s Office $500,000 from the city’s General Fund surplus in each of the next three years to pay for additional employees.
“If we did the same thing that we did for the courts four years ago, what would the prosecutor’s office look like and how much would that help?” he said. “And so, the feedback that we got from was that it would be a tremendous impact, and they would be able to hire the positions to start relieving the backlog of cases.”
“Our Circuit Court attorneys have among the highest caseloads in the state,” he said. “They average 450 cases per attorney. In District Court, I have one attorney in each courtroom. They average over 1,000 pending cases at any given time. And it should be noted, these are not 4,500 cases a year or 1,000 cases a year. We’re talking about at any given time, that’s how many cases are pending.”
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