The Chamber of Deputies adopted a measure that would restructure judicial authority in the capital and in Santiago, the DR’s second largest city. If approved in the Senate and signed by the President, the measure would go far toward undoing the backlog of cases pending in those two populous jurisdictions. The current legal structure provides that criminal courts are distributed by region, rather than population, leading to a division of labor described by the Supreme Court Chief Judge. Marcos Subero Isa as "irrational." Twice before the measure was submitted to congress with no action taken.
