‘Backlog Reduction’ explored by NCSC
The National Center for State Courts will present the webinar “Implementing a Plan—Backlog Reduction” on Monday, January 9, beginning at 2 p.m. via Zoom.
The Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators Rapid Response Team continues its Backlog Reduction Workshop series. The workshop, the third installment in the webinar series, is being offered with the support of the State Justice Institute.
Most courts are still working their way through a pandemic-generated case backlog. The National Center for State Courts is proud to bring together court leaders to discuss the tools and strategies that have worked for them. Panelists will discuss measuring backlog, identifying resources and tools courts can use to help move cases, evaluating the effect of interventions, and maintaining the momentum required to tackle this additional workload.
Presenters for the webinar include:
• Judge Tracy Prall, presiding judge, Marion County Circuit Court, Oregon
• Judge Andrew T. Heath, director, North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts
• Judge David M. Johnson, Sixth Judicial District of Minnesota
• Matt Brockman, business process specialist, Sixth Judicial District of Minnesota
Kristen Trebil-Halbersma, managing director, Court Consulting Services, NCSC, will moderate the webinar.
To register for the program, visit www.ncsc.org and click on “webinars.”
Man sentenced in death of infant he was babysitting
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A southwestern Michigan man was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2017 death of an infant he had been babysitting.
A Kalamazoo County Circuit Court judge sentenced Bryant Rolland Jr., 37, to 12 1/2 to 40 years in prison in the death of 11-month-old Jaceyon Downey. The Kalamazoo man had pleaded no contest in December to second-degree murder in the boy's death.
Authorities said Rolland was babysitting Jaceyon and his then 3-year-old brother as he was watching six of his own children. Rolland was accused of pushing the infant down a set of stairs on Aug. 23, 2017, four days before the child died in a hospital, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.
Rolland had been found guilty of first-degree murder in the boy's death in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But he was granted a new trial after his attorney was deemed to have provided ineffective counsel.
Rolland was released from prison in December 2020, but he has been in the Kalamazoo County Jail since April 2021. The judge who sentenced Rolland on Tuesday gave him credit for nearly five years of incarceration.
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