This time, we're reviewing the decline in Appellate Court
criminal dockets between 2001 and 2010.
The sharpest decline was in the First District. There were
2,176 new criminal notices of appeal filed in 2000. Although
that number rose to 2,334 in 2001, it nosedived to 1,772 in 2002
and stayed around that level for the remainder of the decade.
The data in other Districts changed much less. There were
649 new criminal notices of appeal in the Second District in
2000. By 2006, there were only two fewer. In 2009,
there were again 647 new notices of appeal and the number dropped
to 607 in 2010.
Criminal notices of appeal actually increased during the decade
in the Third District. There were 486 new notices of appeal
in 2000. That went up to 525 in 2001 and 539 a year
later. After a short dropoff, the data was back up to 578 in
2008 before leveling off to 491 in 2010.
