Courts certainly can be and have been slowed down, by the discovery process and when someone requires a continuance or when a jury trial is actually held or when someone actually even appears to do battle and not just default.

Traffic courts are a prime example of ignorance and when the officer hands over a traffic ticket and tells the person they must appear by a certain date and time. Only the clerk has the authority for this notice and not the law enforcement officer. Appearance does not mean in person as in body present, but that you file an appearance form and appear with a written filing to have a continuance or to counter sue or to deny and offer affirmative defenses and so on. The traffic courts are clogged with people there who do not understand anything and delay the process for those that are trying to fight the ticket as most are there just to say something stupid before they pay the fine and costs that they could have paid electronically or by check to the clerk and not missed work, etc. STUPIDITY and IGNORANCE!

What all of those should do is at least file for a continuance and deny the allegations and see if the witness for the State, the policeman that wrote the ticket shows up for trial and if not or is at least fifteen minutes late,l demand that the Court dismiss for failure to prosecute when the witness is not available for the case in chief.

If people did this then the courts would be so overwhelmed that police would be told only to write tickets when there is something really bad involved, such as when someone is going 200 mph in a school zone while children are walking across the street coming or going from school.

Michael-Lynn @ The “MIXED WAR” Room and The Trials of Life.