Domestic Violence Court Celebrates Success
Excerpt: [In addition to several other changes] the court has completed the first year of its new family violence court, an effort to reduce recidivism and bring broken families back together. Of 23 defendants so far, none has committed a new act of domestic violence, the court said.
"The fact that not one of these high-risk defendants has re-offended in the past year is truly a remarkable achievement," said Judge Verna Adams, the county's presiding judge and chief architect of the family violence court.
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