Arrest alone makes defendants pay time and uncertainty costs to the court

Evidence

Defendants may be innocent but by virtue of being arrested are judged guilty enough to pay in time and uncertainty the price that the court exacts for scheduling cases for the primary convenience of the judge. Although practices vary from court to court it is typical that defendants will not be told even approximately when their cases will be called, so that they must wait in the courtroom, possibly for most of the day, until they receive a hearing. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 709