Chief Judge: State Courts Are Getting More Efficient

ALBANY — New York's courts are getting more efficient and are experimenting with new ideas, or the renewal of old ones such as sending opioid addicts to treatment rather than prison.At the annual State of the Judiciary address, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced a series of court reforms and gave an update on her Excellence Initiative, an effort to grapple with the perennial problem of heavy caseloads and the resulting backlog in the state's criminal court system.

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