This week, we’re continuing our review of the detailed lag time data for the Court’s death penalty cases. First up: the average wait from the order appointing death penalty counsel to filing of the opening brief.
During the 1990s, the average wait from appointment of counsel to the filing of the opening brief increased significantly.
Today, we’re tracking the average lag time from filing of the certified record on appeal to the order appointing direct appeal death penalty counsel. The average wait was 416.35 days in 1990, 735.24 in 1991, 620.48 days in 1992, 743.65 days in 1993, 673.29 days in 1994, 921.31 days in 1995, 542.63 days in 1996,
For the past few weeks, we’ve been reviewing the Court’s lag time data from one case benchmark to the next for both civil and criminal cases. In our next several posts, we’ll be looking at the Court’s recent history with death penalty cases. Today, we’re tracking the lag time between the first two steps in
As we continue our review of the milestones lag time data from the Court’s past thirty years of criminal cases, in this post we’re looking at the average wait from oral argument to decision. Of course, Article VI, Section 19 of the California Constitution requires that criminal cases, just like civil ones, be decided within
For the past few weeks, we’ve been tracking the average time between each milestone of civil and criminal cases at the California Supreme Court, year by year since 1990. This time, we’re looking at the average wait from the filing of the last brief to oral argument in criminal cases. As before, for the moment
Yesterday, we reviewed the data for the average wait from filing of the opening brief to filing of the reply brief. This time, we move to the next step: the average wait from filing of the reply brief to filing of the final brief – amicus or supplemental.
During the 1990s, the relatively few additional
Today, we’re looking at the lag time data for the next step in a criminal case – the wait from the order appointing counsel to the filing of the opening brief (which is generally, but by no means always, by the defendant). One very big caution with today’s numbers: for this post, we’re covering all
This time, we’re reviewing the lag time data for the second step in the typical non-death penalty criminal case at the Supreme Court: the average days from the order granting review to the order appointing counsel.
In 1990, the average wait was 44 days. That fell to 35.33 in 1991 but rose to 60.82 the
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
Last time, we showed that the lag time from the end of party briefing to oral argument was longer for civil cases in which the Court was divided than cases which were ultimately decided unanimously. But is lag time related to the degree of disagreement? Do 4-3 decisions take the longest, or do 6-1 decisions