There's been significant backlog in criminal cases at the Harris County District Attorney's Office, but some of those cases are finally being resolved after years.
District Attorney's Office has criminal cases backing up preventing many cases from being resolved.
According to the release, as of April 10, the backlog has been cut to 114,242 cases which is a drop of nearly 31,000 from 2021.Ogg gave her staff credit for the initiative's success and pointed out the creation of a Homicide Division within the office and the implementation of a "triage" program, both of which helped the major backlog reductions.**EDITORS NOTE: This video is from a previous story.
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