Monster Docket speeds wheels of justice
By ANDREW GOODRIDGE
The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
The benches were packed to the gills and it was standing-room only in the county court-at-law courtroom Wednesday morning.
John Boundy, a local attorney who accepts the bulk of the county's indigent defendants, walked into the courtroom just before 9 a.m. and took attendance of his clients. He started alphabetically and asked his first client to "step into my office." They walked into the hallway and found a private corner.
Boundy and his client were scrambling to accept, decline or negotiate a plea bargain with the state. They were due to stand before Court-at-law Judge Jack Sinz at a hearing set to begin any minute. His client later accepted the state's offer, pleading guilty to one charge of failure to stop and furnish information in exchange for a suspended sentence and probation.
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