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COVERNOR'S CRIi'P~ CO~XtMISSION ~krPBT FOR~! <br /> <br /> DIVISION OF CRI~[E CONTROL <br /> <br /> DEPART?MNT OF CRI[-~ COntROL AND PUBLIC <br /> <br /> 1. N~ o~ ~ ~ · <br /> <br /> 2.. l';~m~ of City, Co~nny, qr StaEe Asency Applicant C~arrn~ Rowan . <br /> <br /> 3. L~le;a~nt~ng A~lcocL, or Or~raniza~on' District A~torney, 19th Judicial Distric~ <br /> <br /> 4. Estimate] Prcjec~ f;l:,~rt Date January 1, ~979 : <br /> <br /> 5. Identify Proposal ~,-~ R~uesh for Continuation or N~ ~n~ New funds <br /> <br /> 6. ~(E P~BL~-i (D2sccil.e ~]e crLm~ and/or a~ency probleal ~o ~ addresssd wi~e D~o~och <br /> NjC.G.S. 1SA Article..~ entitled '~dy'Trlal"' becomes effective'on <br /> 1, 1978. It si:ares that the .trial of the defendan~ char~ed with a cr~ <br /> ~shall beg:rn within 120 da~s or the' charge shall' ~e' c~ismi's~ed. <br /> Certain delays, such as those caused by unavailability of the defendant, <br /> witness, or attorney are excluded in com~u~ing ~he 120 day limitation. 6nce <br /> a defendant shews the passage of the 120 days the State has the burden of <br /> going forward with evidence in connection with excluding periods. The <br /> statute ent~erates 11 types of such time periods that should 'rightfully be <br /> excluded if there were some way to locate each case in which the appropriate <br /> notation sho61d ba made. Neither the Clerk of Court' nor the Distric~ <br /> Attorney has any facility at this time capable of keeping a competent record <br /> of periods that rightfully ought ~o be excluded .in computing the' time <br /> limitation in each case. For example if an a~torney, 9r witness were to <br /> 'adequately notify all parties that he would be unavailab~he for a period of <br /> time; it would be virtually impossible to 'search through 'every pending <br /> criminal case and make the notatio~ to exclude the appropriate period in <br /> computing the time limi~ in each and every case in which he is involved. <br /> <br />7. ~3AL S~A.~2.,~ Y~D ~4I~%S~e~%LE OP.3EC~iV~:S (D~scribn wbah ~e projec~ will ac~eve in <br /> order to ad,~'ess the problem.)The office of the District Attorney aeeds <br /> capability to record information concerning every pending case so that a <br /> listing of every case in which a particular witness, attorney or defendant <br /> is ingolved can quickly be obtained as well as o~her similar information. <br /> ~ small data .processing ~nit wo~ h~a.~t~o~sko~ipq ~he appropriate <br /> ~~o~end%~_.G~imina~e, %hen listing cases <br /> to: alphab~i~er, n~e~~ndividual witness, individual <br /> <br /> and capable of compu~zng and storing the try b~6re date" for ea~ <br /> <br /> <br />