Today, we’re reviewing the average lag time for our proxy for the Supreme Court’s decisional period in non-death penalty criminal cases: the lag time from the filing of the final brief – whether the reply brief, an amicus brief or a supplemental brief – to oral argument.

The average lag time was 262.47 days in 1990, 201.72 in 1991, 221.13 in 1992, 188.73 in 1993, 217.47 in 1994., 199.24 in 1995, 193.81 in 1996, 106.07 in 1997, 207.44 in 1998 and 280.4 days in 1999.

The average lag time was 268.48 days in 2000, 265.2 in 2001, 216.79 in 2002, 354.91 in 2003, 351.39 in 2004, 216.54 in 2005, 375.7 in 2006, 391.95 in 2007, 385.9 in 2008 and 273.03 days in 2009.

The average lag time was 265.85 days in 2010, 384.29 in 2011, 249.65 in 2012, 317.56 in 2013, 301.91 in 2014, 260.69 in 2015, 280.14 in 2016, 303.55 in 2017, 302.59 in 2018 and 422.67 days in 2019.

Join us back here tomorrow morning as we turn our attention to another landmark in non-death penalty criminal cases.

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