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WAKE COUNTY
2019-2020
Wake County is in the 10 th District Court District and the 10 th Prosecutorial District of North Carolina. Wake County has several courtrooms that hears DWI cases including a dedicated DWI courtroom. There are several
assistant district attorneys who handle cases in the DWI courtroom as well as the other courtrooms in the
courthouse. Multiple ADAs may collect discovery and attend hearings as the case progresses as well as several different judges. There has been frequent turnover in the ADAs who handle the DWI cases in the past
few years.
MADD NC has had at least one trained volunteer attend court once a week to gather data and observe cases.
The program also had a criminal justice class from William Peace College attend court for at least 10 hours to
observe DWI cases part of their class requirement; as well as two student interns for one semester each. Most volunteer court monitors attend the same court session every week (i.e., Wednesday morning sessions every week). Even with the dedicated DWI courtroom which has a small docket, cases are often continued many times prolonging the time for a case to reach final disposition. Like so many counties experience, there is a lot
of waiting time as defense attorneys are serving cases in multiple courtrooms at the same time which often
limits the number of cases heard that day.
Wake County Disposition 2019-2020
Wake County
2+ yrs 9%
350
300
300
0-1 yrs 51%
250
200
150
1-2 yrs 40%
80
100
26
50
2
0
Guilty Not Guilty Dismissed Amended Unable to determine dispostion
Wake 0-1 yrs 1-2 yrs 2+ yrs
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