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5:00 am
Tue March 5, 2013

Citizen's Court: Talking It Out With Your Neighbor

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Assistant District Attorney Bruce Lillie, center, discusses a case with others on the misdemenaor team in citizen's court on December 10.
Credit Tasnim Shamma
Judge Theo X. Nixon presides over Citizen's Court in Courtroom 4330 at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse.
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Assistant District Attorney Bruce Lillie discusses the new Citizen's Court initiative in Mecklenburg County.
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The Mecklenburg County Courthouse processes up to 1,600 misdemeanor cases a day. And administrators are always looking for ways to bring that number down so that judges have more manageable caseloads. One of the newest initiatives is mediation. Also known as Citizen's Court.

WFAE's Tasnim Shamma spent a day at Citizen's Court to see how well mediation was working … or not.

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