Today's lunch time sojourn yielded22empty courtrooms and 14 courtrooms in use out of 36 checked in the old courthouse between 1:40 PM and 1:55 PM. Of the courtrooms in use or about to be used, 3 were staffed by senior judges, and one was staffed by a circuit juvenile delinquency judge. As always, North Wing courtrooms were not checked, since everyone knows the Broward prison machine is nearly always running full steam. Satellite courtrooms were likewise not checked, although it's a safe bet another bonanza of inefficiently managed resources and personnel would have been discovered if North, South, and West were monitored.
Even allowing for the slight possibility that a few of the desolate courtrooms might have been scheduled for late starts, the fact that only 14 out of 36 courtrooms were in use during peak hours on a Wednesday afternoon speaks volumes. Critics are quick to point out that Peter Weinstein can't physically stop his judges from behaving badly, but no one will argue that his administration wouldn't last a day in the private sector with so many tax dollars going up in flames on a daily basis. Once again it's a leadership problem, and based on the 17th Circuit's most recent request to the Supreme Court for 6 additional county judges, don't expect anything to change soon ...
(Drop an email if you'd like to know individual courtrooms and their occupancy status)
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Even allowing for the slight possibility that a few of the desolate courtrooms might have been scheduled for late starts, the fact that only 14 out of 36 courtrooms were in use during peak hours on a Wednesday afternoon speaks volumes. Critics are quick to point out that Peter Weinstein can't physically stop his judges from behaving badly, but no one will argue that his administration wouldn't last a day in the private sector with so many tax dollars going up in flames on a daily basis. Once again it's a leadership problem, and based on the 17th Circuit's most recent request to the Supreme Court for 6 additional county judges, don't expect anything to change soon ...
(Drop an email if you'd like to know individual courtrooms and their occupancy status)
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