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Judicial Branch Blames Inadequate Budget Appropriations For Case Backlog

V.I. Superior Court Chief Justice Rhys Hodge sat alongside a panel of judicial branch officials and denounced Gov. Albert Bryan Jr.’s recommended judiciary budget appropriation of nearly $38 million, citing it as the sixth year the judiciary has been underfunded by at least 17 percent.

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