http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18977619-29277,00.html
"A REPORT says delays in preparing cases for Victorian courts mean some prisoners spend up to three and a half years on remand before fronting a judge. The backlog is related to staffing issues at the forensic centre where evidence is tested.
A spokeswoman said four people sentenced last year spent more than a thousand days on remand. She says all were remanded for murder and received sentences of more than 15 years. A Victorian Department of Justice document says the average time spent on remand for remandees who were sentenced last year is 114 days. The range is from one day to one thousand 250 days. Ms Armitage says time spent on remand is taken into account when judges decided jail terms.
She says figures haven't been kept on the time those who were later acquitted spent on remand." [Snippet]
