In a sharply worded filing to the Georgia Supreme Court, Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. says a backlog of more than 5,100 criminal cases that have been pending in Fulton for more than two years since arrest or indictment represent a “constitutional crisis,” and asks the court to order the Superior Court to audit its cases and initiate a priority system for disposing of them.
“Each one of those cases is now in jeopardy because the Fulton Superior Courts consistently fail in their duty to track, calendar, and try older cases with orderly dispatch,” says the brief, filed in a case that was dismissed by a trial court last year on speedy trial grounds.
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