For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing detailed lag time data on the civil side.  Now, we’re going to look at the criminal side of the docket.  First up: what’s the average lag time from the filing of a petition for review to the order granting review?

The average progressively edged upwards during the 1990s.  It was only 34.96 days in 1990, 47.05 in 1991, 48.7 in 1992 and 49.38 in 1993, but moved into the fifties (59.58 in 1994, 58.06 in 1995, 54.22 in 1996) and sixties (60.57 in 1997, 62.11 in 1998 and 61.23 in 1999).

The average lag time was relatively consistent from 2000 to 2009, with a one-year spike halfway through the decade.  In 2000, the average wait was 66.9 days.  The next year, that fell a bit to 63.38, then to 60.81 in 2002.  In 2003, the average was 52.4 days.  In 2004, it fell to 50.77 days.  In 2005, the average was 52.03 days.  In 2006, there was a spike to 93.73 days, but the number immediately settled down: 56.8 in 2007, 60.32 in 2008 and 70.64 in 2009.

The average lag time from filing to grant order remained relatively consistent over the past ten years, this time with two one-year spikes.  In 2010, the average was 60.48 days.  It jumped to 94.58 in 2011 before settling to 61.3 in 2012 and 56.53 in 2013.  The average was 104.84 days in 2014, 59.17 in 2015, 61.23 in 2016, 59.33 in 2017, 56.88 in 2018 and 60.63 days in 2019.

Next time, we’ll continue our review of the criminal case data by looking at the numbers from grant of review to appointment of counsel.

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