{"id":473,"date":"2007-01-03T15:41:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2007-01-03T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:42:40","slug":"20-25-of-court-cases-in-gwinnett-county-involve-illegal-aliensmore-judges-and-interpreters-needed-to-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/20-25-of-court-cases-in-gwinnett-county-involve-illegal-aliensmore-judges-and-interpreters-needed-to-keep-up\/","title":{"rendered":"20-25% of court cases in Gwinnett County involve illegal aliens…more judges and interpreters needed to keep up"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the “yeah, sure lets give them a path to citizenship” department:<\/p>\n

Gwinnett Daily Post:<\/p>\n

Court pleads for help with illegals <\/strong>
\n12\/15\/2006 <\/p>\n

By Camie Young
\nSenior Writer
\ncamie.young@gwinnettdailypost.com<\/p>\n

LAWRENCEVILLE – Estimating up to 20 to 25 percent of their cases involve illegal immigrants, Gwinnett judges made a plea to state legislators to address the problem the only way they can – by adding another judge to the bench.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Not only has Gwinnett’s astronomical population growth caused a larger burden on Gwinnett’s judicial system, but the large number of non-English speakers means cases take longer, Superior Court Judge Melodie Snell Conner said in a presentation to lawmakers Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 15-minute plea hearing takes twice the time when interpreters are involved<\/a>, and criminal cases where the victim and the perpetrator speak different languages can make a trial very lengthy, she said.<\/p>\n

Prompted by a question from a legislator, she said between 20 to 25 percent of the cases involve illegal immigrants who could face deportation.<\/p>\n

But Conner said she once convicted an illegal immigrant of a felony only to have him appear in her court two years later for a probation violation.
\nOther State and Superior Court judges agreed with the percentage.
\n“Every calender I deal with has someone on it that’s illegal,” said Superior Court Judge Tom Davis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahh…the rich blessing of illegals and their culture of family values.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the “yeah, sure lets give them a path to citizenship” department: Gwinnett Daily Post: Court pleads for help with illegals 12\/15\/2006 By Camie Young Senior Writer camie.young@gwinnettdailypost.com LAWRENCEVILLE – Estimating up to 20 to 25 percent of their cases involve illegal immigrants, Gwinnett judges made a plea to state legislators to address the problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}