“We’re preventing it now just by asking every single time if anybody has moved,” he said. There were several dozens of cases during those three months going back to November 2017, according to Lynch. We had to retry some cases, bring witnesses back.” “That one little simple question cost this county tens of thousands of dollars. “Everybody makes mistakes, but that one was pretty serious,” Lynch said. That one mistake caused three months of criminal indictments to be thrown out. Jurors legally have to live in the county they serve.

He’s also added a very important question to ask jurors every morning that they are on duty: have you moved since you were last here?īack in January, a clerk noticed that a check was going out to one of the jurors on the Anderson County grand jury but, it was being sent out to a home in Blount County. He’s re-interviewed all the current employees - only three went on to find other employment - written job descriptions and titles for every employee, hired a collections officer and extended the hours of operation. Newly elected circuit court clerk Rex Lynch has had a busy 30 days in office already. Judge Don Layton stands with newly certified probably cause clerks Angie Perez, Amanda Vowell, Shalea Prickett. Alley and Wallace received their certification to become probable cause clerks. Rex Lynch, Angie Alley, Emily Wallace and Judge Roger Miller.

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