Despite initial challenges, the new criminal court had dismissed 149 cases and saved the county $819,000 as of Aug. 31
It's impossible to hold a jury trial in the roughly 600-square-foot nook tucked into the corner of the Bexar County Courthouse’s basement. The space is similar in size to a studio apartment. It shouldn't be a courtroom at all, county staff say. But it was. Until recently, it housed the county's newest court. 'We would have to make a lot of people wait in the hallway,' Judge Miguel Najera said. 'I've got employees that don't even have a place to sit.
Odyssey launched then, and Najera’s daily caseload exploded. A rocky debut While about 70 cases poured into Najera’s tiny courtroom everyday, the judge noticed a troubling trend: attorneys were often failing to show up. “About every docket, I’m having about four attorneys that don’t show up,” Najera said at a commissioners court meeting in September. “They just ghost us completely.
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