By way of example, catastrophe legal beagle cited 20 cases docketed in federal court for trial in the alabama fed district. Sedwick County (couldn't find joco) had 183 pages of docketed criminal cases (5 to 10 per page) set for hearing today alone and a similar docket yesterday. Over 3500 criminal cases have been docketed in Sedgwick County already this year. That's one county in kansas with over a dozen judges doing full time criminal work. That's how important this one federal judge is in the grand scheme of things crimimal, and that's not even considering the magistrate will decide literally every substantive evidentiary issue.