Nicholas Zarlino

I have been attempting to resolve a landlord-tenant case for the better part of two-and-one-half years through this courthouse. While my lawyer has been excellent, professional, courteous, and knowledgeable, the court system has for the past year failed to address my docket until / unless I call in and ask about it. Even then, I must call back because of some unexpected change which was not properly communicated. For example, I call in to ask about having an officer serve an arrest warrant in my docket, I provide the last known addresses, and then three weeks pass with no change. Upon calling in, it is because the courts do not know which address to try first, so I am advised to call the courthouse and direct them...except they are on lunch break for two hours, a meeting for another hour past that, and when I finally get someone on the line, he puts me on hold for another hour, where I get no one and the courthouse's closing time comes and goes.

I am aware of the adage of the wheel of justice turning slowly, don't get me wrong, but for things to take this long -- where only calling in and requesting my docket be manually reviewed results in any form of change -- then I have to agree with previous reviews left by Olmiss Peralta, G. Evan McMahon, and Crystal Livingstone, in that this courthouse desperately needs more workers to lighten the load, so people do not have to wait an unreasonable amount of time to reach some form of case conclusion, for better or worse.