Sept. 8th Court Update

So court was at 9:00 a.m. yesterday and we got there about 15 till. Mom finds the correct court room and there is an attorney in there with a stack of files, but no one else. So she asks him if he know if court would be at the court house or if it would be video court. Video court is where the judge decides to not have any of the inmates come to the court house but stay at the jail in the jail's "court room" and hold court by video up link. Now know one ever knows which one it will be until the judge comes to the court room at the court house and decides what they want to do. So of course the attorney didn't know. So mom asked if Lindsey was on the list to get seen. So the attorney checks his list. Now he's got a list a page long and can't find Lindsey or Rose's name's on it, but he does have Orval's name on his list. He also says there is another list with a different attorney and that the docket was backed up about 200 case's for this one judge so he doesn't know if they'll get seen or not but he'll find out what he can. So we set down to wait. And wait. And wait. By 10:30 the judge still has not come out to start court, but there are several attorney's that go back and forth from the hall to the jury room the whole time. Finally the attorney mom talked to when we first got there came out and tells us that because there were three people involved they each have to have their own attorney and that all they would be doing today was paperwork and setting a new court date. So we wasted an hour and a half setting in a court room watching attorney's walk back and forth trying to look like they were doing their jobs. When really all their doing is charging each of their clients the same full hour as all the other clients when they may spend 15 min talking about each case. And then you have the judge's setting on their butts letting the dockets back up 200 deep casing each case to last way longer then it should. Here Lindsey, Rose, and Orval have been in jail for over a month and Lindsey, that I know of, hasn't even seen an attorney yet. And now they'll be in there for at lest another month just waiting on their next court date and then who knows how long after that.