Time consumption in capital appeals : a multistate study

Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 30, 2007).; "This project was supported by Award No. 2004-IJ-CX-0005, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice"--P. 2.; "This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally-funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies"--Prelim. page.; "March 2007"--Prelim. page.; "Document No.: 217555"--Prelim. page.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-56).; Harvested from the web on 3/30/07This study focuses on the time taken to process direct appeals of capital cases in fourteen states. The fourteen states are: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. For each state, we examined every capital case resolved on direct appeal by the court of last resort ("COLR") between January 1, 1992 and December 31, 2002. This generated a database of 1,676 cases