NC Crackdown Helps Surry Courts
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Starting September 1, 2017, any plaintiff in a domestic violence complaint that doesn't show up for court dates will be imprisoned for up to 30 days. The Surry County court system has been inundated with a high number of cases that are weighing down the system and interfere with other's constitutional right to a speedy trial. One of the most common complaints was of cases where an individual would take out phony or malicious Domestic Violence complaints in retaliation of their partner. Surry County deputy James Polk said in a statement today he has seen hundreds of these cases where a couple is arguing and one calls the Sheriff's office for help when it wasn't really needed. Polk stated that it takes much of the Sheriffs Department time and money when they could be doing serious police work for the county.
It's been an ongoing problem that has been bogging down the courts too. The problem is according to the North Carolina Justice Dept, "Too many frivolous charges are made and as a result, quite often, the plaintiff in such cases backs out or wants to drop the charges altogether because the couple wants to reunite. People often go too far in the "heat of anger" and change their minds later, one official said. So the North Carolina Justice Dept has petitioned the state legislator to address this surmounting problem. This part of the new law concerns cases where the plaintiff doesn't show up in court to finish the process. The NCJD says this is clearly an abuse of the state's desire to go after real domestic violence and as such it should not go unpunished.
Lanie Pope
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