ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the day-to-day business of the Midtown Community Court: the kinds of cases that come in; the frequency of warrants, adjournments, guilty pleas, dismissals and sentences of various types; and the relationships among defendant characteristics, case characteristics and court outcomes. It delineates points in the case flow where cases fall away from the movement toward rapid disposition at the Court, either because defendants fail to appear at arraignment or because they adjourn the case for a subsequent hearing at the Downtown court. It also reviews how various measures of court performance—caseloads, sentence outcomes, adjournment rates—changed as the new Court evolved over the first eighteen months.
