A Houston judge who tried to manage her backlogged docket by denying a car wreck defendant’s jury trial request so she could keep a bench trial setting has gotten a message from her area’s appellate court.
Courts can’t do that.
"Taking this case off the non-jury docket which has no backlog and is up to date and resetting the case for a jury trial at some future date would delay the trial most likely by years," ruled 270th District Judge Dedra Davis of Houston in an order that has been overturned on appeal.
May 20, 2021 at 07:02 PM
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A Houston judge who tried to manage her backlogged docket by denying a car wreck defendant’s jury trial request so she could keep a bench trial setting has gotten a message from her area’s appellate court.
Courts can’t do that.
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