Jury Trials Delayed due to COVID-19

Covid-19

The Supreme Court of Idaho has paused jury trials indefinitely and issued an Order that a trial delay due to the current global pandemic should not be counted as violating a person’s right to a speedy trial. Jury trials in Idaho delayed until 2021 amid rising COVID-19 cases | ktvb.com Idaho courts operating at reduced…

Covid-19 and Idaho’s Prisons

Covid-19, Incarceration

We are seeing and hearing that most people confined to an institution at the moment have been exposed to the novel coronavirus or have or are recovered from Covid-19. Idaho’s institutions are unable to provide social distancing, placing both incarcerated people and the community-at-large at risk. Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in justice institutions –…