Following the shooting death of the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, his successor declared a judicial emergency on Tuesday that will temporarily lift the deadline for moving criminal defendants to trial. She cited an unmanageable caseload.
Chief Judge Roslyn Silver, who sits in Phoenix, acted on the late U.S. District Judge John Roll’s request last year to declare an emergency in the district, which has one of the highest caseloads in the country due to actions involving illegal immigration and drug smuggling across its border with Mexico. Roll was killed in the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that resulted in five other deaths and injured 13, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
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