MARIETTA — Cobb’s Superior Court will start another avenue for military veterans in line with recent “smart on crime” reforms to criminal justice systems around the country and in Georgia.
Cobb’s Senior Assistant District Attorney Grady Moore said the Cobb veteran court will join nearly 3,000 similar veteran courts nationwide, with 120,000 to 150,000 Americans participating in the programs.
The movement towards accountability courts started with a drug treatment court in 1989 by a Miami judge who was tired of seeing the same defendants rotating through the doors, Moore said.
Moore, who started as a prosecutor in Nashville, Tenn., in 1996, was helping to coordinate Cobb’s drug court on top of a normal caseload when District Attorney Vic Reynolds took office in January 2013.
Reynolds assigned Moore full-time to the accountability courts and in May 2013 started Cobb’s mental health court.
“The next big wave that we anticipate is veteran courts,” Moore said.
via The Marietta Daily Journal – Veterans court to provide alternative to jail time.
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