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Last year was marked by starts and stops at the Clark County Courthouse — with COVID-19 surges and brief jury trial suspensions — causing a backlog of criminal cases that began in 2020 to grow even more severe.
Officials started 2021 hoping that rolling back some COVID-19 precautions could allow them to ramp up the pace of the criminal justice system, only to see the logjam grow even larger as the pandemic stretched into its second year.
