Idea to reduce backlog by dismissing thousands of felony cases proves too far for Harris County

Construction crews put up windows on Harris County Courthouse in Houston on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The number of criminal cases pending before Harris County courts currently stands at more than 94,000. That includes 41,000 misdemeanors and 53,000 felonies, numbers so high that if prosecutors stopped filing criminal charges […]

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