North Carolina court officials have announced they will soon be sending stand-in Judges and court reporters to Mecklenburg County. The Judges will stay for six months to help with our overloaded court system backlog.The extra judges will help with the case backlog and it will help clear out some of the people we have sitting in the Mecklenburg County Jail. Most of the people held in the jail are waiting to go to court so the court system backlog is contributing to the problem of our overcrowded jail. Once the suspect is convicted or cleared in court, they will either go to a state prison facility or be released.
The stand-in judges will not eliminate the court system backlog but it will certainly help. The new Mecklenburg County Courthouse has several open courtrooms and is outfitted to handle the additional judges.