The average lag time from the order appointing appellate counsel in non-death criminal cases to the filing of the opening brief was 30 days in 1990, 35.14 in 1991, 44.5 in 1992, 50.38 in 1993 and 38.38 days in 1994. The average jumped to 114.35 days in 1995 before falling back to 39.71 days in 1996. It rose to 127.29 days in 1997. The average was 60 days in 1998 and 70.44 days in 1999.

The average lag time was 54.52 days in 2000, 83.72 days in 2001 and 79.62 days in 2002. For the rest of the decade, the average was relatively flat: 40.41 in 2003, 58.58 in 2004, 47.12 in 2005, 64.12 in 2006, 58.56 in 2007, 52.04 in 2008 and 52.38 days in 2009.

The average was jumped to 98.9 days in 2010 and 83.58 days in 2011. It fell back to 59.88 in 2012, 59.81 in 2013, 54.45 in 2014 and 50.84 in 2015. Average wait time has increased since then: 177.16 days in 2016, 75.05 days in 2017, 90 days in 2018 and 88.18 days in 2019.

Join us back here next week as we continue our review of the lag time data for non-death criminal cases.

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