Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office, said he expects that caseloads will drop for prosecutors who handle the diversion program for low-risk offenders.
The past few days have been busy ones for air traffic controllers who handled several flight diversions on U.S. airlines due to disruptive passengers.
Significantly, many of the providers interviewed for the study were unfamiliar with the term "Article 216 cases", a term which is routinely used by judges and other court-personnel to refer to cases that are handled using the new DLRA diversion mechanismsd.
The flood rapidly filled the pool behind the Auburn cofferdam to capacity, as the diversion tunnel could not handle the extra water pouring into the reservoir.
Stephen G. Peters, an El Paso defense lawyer who has handled DWI cases since the 1990s, said pretrial diversion is at the discretion of the district attorney.
Crews generally go only to hospitals they know will take them; cities generally have plans to handle what happens when too many hospitals go on diversion.
"Just looking at the way that every single person who gets arrested (in New York City) goes into the human-trafficking intervention courts," D'Adamo told me of the special diversion courts set up in 2013 to handle prostitution misdemeanors.
"We can handle products here where there is a high risk of diversion – products that can be used for recreational as well as medical benefit," says Cook, who has worked for Shasun for 27 years.
Another important method for diverting substance abusers into treatment involves sentencing options available to judges and diversion by prosecutors, for cases that are not handled by specialized drug courts.
If an increasing trend in EMS diversion hours reflects the inability of hospitals to handle critically ill patients, then these contemporaneous patterns call into question the capability of current medical systems to handle regular influenza seasons, as well as more stressful events, such as pandemic influenza.
