Because how would judges,lawyers and court clerks keep up their golf games if they were forced to work "flat out"?
Damn it,man...do you want them all to have heart attacks?
Pretty much.
There is night court in some places, but it's not widely spread.
I still am wondering if defense counsel can, and if so, will, file in federal district court for an order directing the state court to set the case for a "speedy" trial within a specific time frame, like 60 to 90 days. in CA, a defendant has to waive time in order for a trial to be set more than 45 days beyond arraignment, and that even includes misdemeanor cases in which no bail was posted, such as cases where the defendant is released on his "own recognizance" instead of having to post bail or bond. Yet NC has no such requirement, and the excuse is, "Well, they're out on bail so they don't need a speedy trial." Uneffingbelievable. And no probable cause hearing, yet no requirement for the prosecutor to present exculpatory evidence to the GJ, and using an indicting GJ in the first place for all threshold felony cases. Apparently there has not been a constitutional scholar darken the inside of the NC state supreme court or its appellate courts in a good long while, if ever. This is really, really scary stuff. I wonder how many lefties there are in NC who're bitching about the NSA and phone records, yet they're living in a state where they are subjected to laws that are little better than the kangaroo courts found in feudal law and trials by ordeal of a thousand years ago, at least as it pertains to rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.