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The San Diego Superior Court will continue to use emergency authorization from the state court leader to extend legal deadlines for holding some arraignments and trials, as it continues to try to bring court operations back to pre-pandemic levels.
But meeting that goal is likely some months away, according to the court’s own estimation.
In an application to extend the time for holding an arraignment for people in custody the first court appearance for someone charged with a crime where a plea is entered and bail set Presiding Judge Lorna Alksne wrote that officials are working on a plan to hold all such hearings within the legal timeline of 48 hours after an arrest.
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Lasting Power of Attorney applications drop 30% during pandemic
Not back to pre-pandemic levels
Rachael Griffin: While numbers still haven t returned to their previous levels, they are getting closer and it is encouraging to see that people are getting the much-appreciated peace of mind that having an LPA entails.
Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) registrations fell significantly during the pandemic as lockdown measures made the process more onerous, according to official figures.
A freedom of information request to the Ministry of Justice, made by Quilter, showed a 30% dip in LPAs registered between April last year and February this year.
The advice and wealth management business said while numbers had improved, they had still not recovered to their pre-pandemic levels. With February this year 25% below February 2020.
For thousands of Wisconsin defendants accused of crimes, they need to put up cash to get out of jail.
When defendants â even ones facing serious charges with massive bail in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars â have money or community support, getting out from behind bars can take just days or weeks.
But for those facing bail bonds of only a couple hundred dollars who donât have support or deep bank accounts, they can languish in jail for months, sometimes taking deals that donât serve them well in the long term simply because they want to end the court process, because they want to stop waiting, to get back home or go to prison quicker, to get out.