Yesterday, we began our journey through the Appellate Court designations for criminal cases with the years 1990 through 1996.  Today, we address the years 1997 through 2003.

The Court decided three cases from Division One of the First District in 2002, two in 2000 and 1997 and one in 1998.  The Court decided four cases in 1997, two in 2001 and one in 2002 and 1998.  The Court decided three cases in Division Three in 2003 and one each in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002.  The Court decided three cases from Division Four in 1997 and one each in 2000 and 2003.  The Court decided two cases from Division Five in 2001 and one in 1999 and 2002.  The Court decided three cases in 1999 and 2002, and one case in 1998 and 2000.  As for cases which (because of non-publication) I was unable to attribute an origin Division: five cases in 2003, four cases in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and two cases in 1998.

The Court decided fifteen cases from the Second District in 1998, eleven in 1999, nine in 2002, eight in 2003, seven in 2000, six in 2001 and five in 1992.  The Court decided eleven cases from the Third District in 2003, seven in 2002, six per year in 1997 and 2001, four in 2000, three in 1998 and two cases in 1999.  The Court decided thirteen cases in 2001, nine in 1997, eight in 2002, seven in 2000, six in 1999 and 2003 and two in 1998.  The Court decided five cases in 2003, four in 2000 and 2002, three per year from 1997 through 1999, and one in 2001.

The Court decided twenty-six direct appeals in 1997, forty-three in 1998, nineteen in 1999, fifty-one in 2000, twenty-two in 2001, twenty-six in 2002 and twenty-five direct appeals in 2003.  The Court decided two cases per year under the Court’s original criminal jurisdiction in 2001, and two cases in 2002.  The Court heard one Bar course in 1997, three in 1999, four in 2000 and one in 2002.

Join us back here next Thursday as we turn our attention to the rest of the Court’s criminal docket.

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