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Utah County OKs immediate expansion of county attorney staffing, 2-1
Summary
The county commission authorized a change to the county attorney's staffing plan to add 15 deputy prosecutors and two legal assistants for the current budget year (vote 2-1), after a lengthy presentation on heavy felony caseloads, plea-bargain reliance, and options for diversion and jury-trial restoration.
The Utah County Board of County Commissioners voted to authorize an immediate change to the county attorney—s staffing plan to add 15 deputy county attorneys and two legal assistants, a move the county attorney said is necessary to reduce extreme caseloads and increase jury trials.
County Attorney Dave Levitt told the commission he needs the positions to address what he described as a system over-reliant on plea bargaining and an office that is "entirely overburdened" by felony filings. "I am asking the commission to increase the staffing plan, to add 15 deputy county attorneys," Levitt said, arguing that his office currently handles roughly 4,500 felony case filings a year and that per-prosecutor felony caseloads in Utah County far exceed American Bar Association and national survey guidance.
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