Eleven prosecutors in the Harris County District Attorney's Office will focus specifically on moving capital murder cases through the court system.
District Attorney Kim Ogg said there is currently a 135,000 case backlog. Of those cases, 450 are capital murders.
The new division created within her office has been assigned 300 of those cases and will receive all of the new capital murder cases moving forward, with the exception of murders of police officers. She said the senior lawyers will be able to move the cases through the system with efficiency and effectiveness.
"Once you try that first murder, then it kind of changes the way you prosecute things," Vinas explained."Once you do that, it changes how you prosecute robbery cases, maybe even sexual assault cases, so the prosecutors who are still trying those cases aren't getting the benefit of trying those murder cases.
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