GUILTY JUDGE
Magistrate Judge Craig McMahon of Bethel, Alaska, fined himself $250 in November, 1991 for not giving a speedy trial to an alleged drunken driver. Because the judge failed to meet a 120 day deadline for trial, all charges against the 33 year old defendant had to be dropped. Judge McMahon has no secretary and must do his own typing and scheduling, but he felt that was no excuse. “My feeling is the court shouldn’t be losing cases,” he said. “It was a procrastinatory streak in myself that finally caught up with me.” Consider everything you’ve put off lately “for good reason.” What would it cost you to make it right? From Associated Press, in LaGrange Daily News, LaGrange, Georgia, Dec. 2, 1991. p. 10A
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