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Prosecutor urges district-court jurisdiction for some school-threat and leaving-the-scene cases to reduce backlogs
Summary
A district attorney asked lawmakers to grant district courts concurrent jurisdiction over certain school-threats and leaving-the-scene-with-death cases so lower-level matters can be handled more quickly and resources in superior court focused on the most serious prosecutions. The change would allow prosecutors discretion to proceed in district or
A district attorney told the Joint Committee on the Judiciary that two bills — House Bill H1604 and House Bill H1846 — would give prosecutors needed flexibility to choose district court for certain allegations involving threats to schools and for some leaving-the-scene cases that resulted in death, particularly where facts suggest panic rather than intoxication.
The prosecutor said the current statutory scheme…
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