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Cases Dismissed
Measures the percentage of 2009-2013 cases filed in court that were dismissed.[1]
North Carolina[2][3][4]
All Cases
2009-2013
22.04%62.35%56.68%
 
In Yancey County, NC, 56.68% of filed cases were dismissed.
North Carolina
A
Yancey
NC
Cases Dismissed
45.98%56.68%
Filed
6,021,5448,664
Dismissed
2,768,6474,911
Missing / unknown final case disposition
0.00%0.00%
Missing / unknown inclusion criteria[5]
0.00%0.00%
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Suggested Citation:

Measures for Justice (2020).Measures for Justice Data Portal.(Data Release: 2.3.6).Retrieved from https://www.measuresforjustice.org on 2/6/2020.

Footnotes:

  1. Dismissals that took place before charging are not captured by the data.

  2. Dismissal language was obtained from the court data provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts. The exact language pulled from this file to flag dismissed charges included: dismissed by the court; no probable cause; dismissed speedy trial; voluntary dismissal DA. A case is considered dismissed only if all charges were dismissed.

  3. In North Carolina, law enforcement agents have the ability to file charges directly with the court. The use of this discretion varies by county. In these instances, prosecutors are not given the opportunity to decline the charge or determine the severity of the offense for which the defendant is charged. This may lead to a greater proportion of case dismissals.

  4. This measure may be inflated in this state if successful pretrial diversions were overwritten as dismissals in the source data.

  5. Percentage of cases that had missing/unknown data on any of the factors needed for inclusion in the measure.

Data Release: 2.3.6