State lawmakers Tuesday voted to make Connecticut the 14th state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, a bill Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has promised to sign. The bill passed the House 90 to 57 after about three hours of debate, while in the state Senate over the weekend, an 18-18 tie was broken by Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, her first and only vote during the session.
Revenues from court costs and fees have inexplicably declined over the past eight years, putting a crimp into the fund the Regional Jail Authority uses to pay off bonds sold to build the state's 10 regional jails, executive director Joe DeLong told legislators Tuesday. The Regional Jail Authority's share of court fees, collected on everything from traffic citations to criminal convictions, has declined nearly 40 percent from 2004.
The DeSoto Board of Supervisors got a feel-good dose of projected savings as Sheriff Bill Rasco and on-call county jail physician Dr. Kenneth Thompson reported that 2012 medical costs for inmates appeared on track to be $300,000 less than last year's bill. The panel also heard welcome fiscal news from DeSoto Justice Court Clerk Shirley Beshears, who reported that total fees and court costs collected for fiscal year 2012 were $2,046,097, with the county's share at $1,279,178, well ahead of fiscal 2011's $1,972,561 total and $1,217,468 for the county's cut. The 2012 fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
Trial court improperly sua sponte opened new case and without notice or opportunity to be heard entered an order prohibiting landlord from filing any documents in any cases even with costs advanced until they paid clerk for alleged delinquent costs in prior unrelated cases; Procedural due process and access to the courts violations.
Civil rights advocates say a legislative proposal to make community service a state-mandated option for residents unable to pay traffic fines would save the state money in the years to come. House Bill 1601, which was approved by a wide margin in the House and has a Senate committee hearing scheduled Monday, would require courts with established community service programs to notify indigent residents they have that option in addition to a payment plan.
Paper or plastic? Circuit courts soon will offer that payment choice as the state Supreme Court stiffens collections requirements.
The New Orleans criminal justice system, critics charge, is funded on the backs of the poor who are processed by the tens of thousands each year and used as raw material to keep the insatiable machine churning. Money generated from bail posted by defendants, the majority of whom are poor, black and charged with non-violent offenses, drives the enterprise, said Michael Jacobson, director of the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice nonprofit based in New York. He's encouraging New Orleans to adopt a pretrial release program that largely takes bond decisions out of judges' hands.
TROY -- The former Edison Community College public relations and marketing director was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation after pleading guilty to a fourth-degree felony for having an unlawful interest in a public contract. Jack Kramer, 64, also was ordered by Miami County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Gee to pay $9,300 in restitution and court costs and $25 per month in supervision fees. Gee said he would give Kramer a 12-month sentence if Kramer didn't obey all the requirements of community control.
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