Ex parte Dharmagunaratne

The majority has found that a full-time district court, created by the executive branch to complement the work of the Narcotics Task Force by “collecting] ... increased fines [which] will act as a deterrent, as will the imposition of sentences requiring confinement,”1 and dependent upon the ratio of convictions to acquittals and dismissals, the value of property forfeited, and the average length of sentence for its continued existence, does not operate in violation of any constitutional strictures because the administrative judge has the authority to assign visiting judges to hear the…