Crime by Vanda Carson
Premium Content A MASSIVE backlog of criminal cases in the state s busiest jurisdiction threatens to overwhelm the system and its hardworking staff, a straight-talking Magistrate has warned. Magistrate Suzette Coates, who was presiding in the arrest court in Brisbane yesterday, estimated the backlog in outstanding warrants for offenders to appear in the Magistrate s court must be about 50,000 . Police prosecutor acting sergeant Hayley Kipps told Magistrate Coates there were 140 cases scheduled for callover in court 1 at the Brisbane arrests court today (Tuesday), a figure perhaps double the usual number. That s just unmanageable isn t it really, 140, Magistrate Coates said.
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