While prosecutors continue to control the criminal docket in most parts of the state, Charleston County has been testing a new system that gives the chief administrative judge more power over calendaring cases for trial. The experiment has been ...

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Members of the committee that was formed for the purpose of solving South Carolina’s docket control problem are frustrated with a lack of direction and action from a state Supreme Court that seems to have gone silent. The committee’s last ...

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What began as a high school project has morphed into a quest for justice for a pair of tenacious honor students who want to change the way criminal trials are calendared in North Carolina.

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More than two years have passed since the South Carolina Supreme Court declared that a unique state law that gives prosecutors exclusive control over scheduling criminal cases for trial was unconstitutional and easily abused.

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News that S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean H. Toal had been meeting with solicitors to discuss a new system for managing the state’s criminal trial docket – and that they were close to going public with a plan – hit some prominent members of the defense bar like a punch in the gut.

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During her state of the judiciary address earlier this year, South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean H. Toal announced she was forming a committee to address the sticky problem of managing the state's criminal docket – the source of a longstanding power struggle between prosecutors and the defense bar.

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