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There are roughly a quarter of a million missed hearings each year in North Carolina, creating a problem not only for the people failing to show up for court but it trickles down to everyone else. It's why researchers at the University of North Carolina, the Pew Charitable Trusts and officials in Orange County along with two other counties in the state are working to solve it.