{"id":2156,"date":"2018-04-11T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:08:28","slug":"quarter-2-court-monitoring-results-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/quarter-2-court-monitoring-results-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter 2 Court Monitoring Results in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2156\" class=\"elementor elementor-2156\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-148508f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"148508f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a00ce6\" data-id=\"4a00ce6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4aa01a2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4aa01a2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>MADD Tennessee is one of 13 states nationwide to participate in our <a class=\"text-red\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/court-monitoring-tennessee\/\">Court Monitoring Program<\/a> in which staff and volunteers go into local courtrooms to ensure drunk and drugged driving cases are prosecuted and adjudicated as the serious crimes they are.&nbsp;&nbsp;Studies show that consistently placing an observer in the courtroom has a positive effect on case disposition.&nbsp; Standardized reporting used by court monitors contributes to an increase in information that can result in higher conviction rates.<\/p>\n<p>The latest results of data gathered from Court Monitoring in Tennessee comparing Quarter 2 of 2017 with Quarter 2 of 2018 confirms that this would appear to hold true for Tennessee courtrooms as well.&nbsp; The findings show that in the areas targeted, in 2017, 73% of the cases returned a guilty verdict for the defendant.&nbsp; In 2018, after Court Monitors were initiated in those areas, that number increased to 75%.&nbsp; &nbsp;In those same areas, in 2017, 13% of DUI cases saw charges reduced or amended.&nbsp; Whereas, in 2018, only 8% had charges reduced or amended.&nbsp; In 2017, 11% of the DUI cases in the target areas had the charges dismissed.&nbsp; But after a year of court monitors reporting outcomes, only 6% of the DUI cases in 2018 had the charges dropped.<\/p>\n<p>MADD knows that our law enforcement heroes, prosecutors, and judges are all working hard to protect Tennesseans and keep them safe from dangers on our roadways.&nbsp; But it takes all of us working together to keep DUI offenders accountable.&nbsp; We are proud to serve as a partner providing valuable information that can be used as a tool to help them in accomplishing this goal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADD Tennessee is one of 13 states nationwide to participate in our Court Monitoring Program in which staff and volunteers go into local courtrooms to ensure drunk and drugged driving&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/quarter-2-court-monitoring-results-in-tennessee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quarter 2 Court Monitoring Results in Tennessee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,19],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-programs","category-statistics","tag-court-monitoring","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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