Bell County Prosecutor Caseloads

As many of you know, each Saturday I combine the Bell County misdemeanor and felony criminal dockets into one document—sorted by defense attorney.  That way, each defense attorney can go to one place to see where and when they will be in court for that week.  That PDF document can be found by clicking the “Dockets” tab above.  Today, though, I did something different just for fun.  Instead of sorting by defense attorney, I sorted by prosecutor. 

Of course, the obvious caveat is that this is just one randomly selected week out of 52 total weeks in a year that our hard-working prosecutors are slaving away for low pay and very little appreciation. 

However, just for fun, it is interesting.  The complete document can be viewed by clicking here.  The breakdown, though, is as follows.  For this one week:

Seven defendants a week for assistant district attorneys versus 52 a week for assistant county attorneys?  Can anyone explain why ADAs earn so much more right off the bat?  It must be exhausting handling those 1.4 different defendants every day!  Whew!

What else is interesting?  How about the number of cases each felony prosecutor has and the corresponding offense levels?  For example, Stephanie Newell has six State Jail felonies this week, four third degrees, one second degree, and one first degree felony.  Here is the breakdown for this week:

And this one, which shows the percentage of pro se defendants each county attorney has to deal with this week, along with the supporting numbers:

One last one is what types of cases each county prosecutor is assigned for this week. I grouped similar offenses together (for example, ABI-FM and ABI were combined as was DWI firsts and DWI seconds, etc.). The numbers represent what percentage of that prosecutors’ caseload is made up of those type of cases (for example, 38% of Anne Jackson’s cases this week are assault-type cases). Here are the rest of the numbers: