Dallas County J.P. courts are clearing old tickets and other cases

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has ordered Justice of the Peace courts throughout the county to clear their backlogs of old, un-pursuable cases. The J.P. courts are now in the process of wiping out hundreds of thousands of cases of unpaid traffic tickets, and payment for hot checks. Some of those still open cases date back to 1947. At least one of the courts describes the clearing process as “an early Christmas” for defendants. The D.A.’s office says this is not likely to ever happen again because court records are now computerized, and keeping track of old cases is now much easier than it used to be.