Record #:

42564

Author(s):

Clark, David E. ; Murtagh, Kevin J.

Abstract:

The authors assert the deleterious role that court costs, outpacing inflation and steadily rising the past two decades, are playing in indigent clients’ ability to afford justice at the same level of their more prosperous counterparts. Underscoring their argument about this impact are a chart that chronicles how district and superior court costs have exponentially risen between 1995-2015. They include as assertion of the costs associated with incarceration of individuals charged with minor offenses, associated costs to taxpayers perhaps preventable by clients being able to pay court costs accrued earlier in the legal process.

Source:

North Carolina State Bar Journal (NoCar KF 200 N67), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Winter 2017 , p8-12

Subject(s):

Court fees and indigent clients ; Court fees--impacts--incarceration; Incarceration--United States--costs ; Criminal justice system--United States--court fees; Crimina court fees--indigent clients--waivers ; North Carolina 2017 Appropriations Act and court costs