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Show Judge Bossard releases l report in Fourth 1 District Court activities I A total of 1146 cases were tried by Judge Sterling R. Bossard in the Fourth District j Juvenile Court in 1970, it was I reported this week. The delay in reporting I cases out of the Juvenile Court is attributed to compul- I ation on a state level prior to reporting on a district basis, I Judge Bossard stated. He indi- cated, however, oases in his I court are decided with 11 days of referal, which is twice as fast as any other district in the state. Judge Bossard indicated that during 1970 the court had ordered or-dered 3140 hours of work assignments as-signments to delinquents and that $12,610 in fines had been collected and returned to thf eight counties which the Court serves. In addition $155C in restitution were collected to the year. With, 1971 already on thr books Judge Bossard indicates indi-cates that there was an in crease in all categories of the court over that of 1970. Breaking it down into counties, coun-ties, Judgp Bossard reporter1 the following: Iron County: 202 charges of delinquency were held; 5? traffic; 7 dependency and neglect and 4 for adult contribution. contri-bution. Beaver County: 39 delinquency: delin-quency: 35 traffic, 7 dep. and neg. and 3 adult contribution Washington County: 47 de linquency, 84 traffic, 3 dep. and neg. and 1 adult contribution. contribu-tion. In Iron County eight cases involving drugs were heard toy the Court, Judge Bossard stated. He attributed the high rate of delinquency cases in Iron County to the fact that law enforcement officers were more concious and response to directing cases to the court than in other counties of the Fourth District. |