This time, as we continue our series tracking average votes to affirm every District and Division of the Appellate Court in criminal cases, we review the data on Second District cases.

The 1990s began at a low point for Second District cases, with an average votes to affirm of only 0.25. In 1991, average votes to affirm rose to 4.83, but that turned out to be the high point for the decade. The average was 1.5 in 1992, 2.4 in 1993, 4 in 1994, 2.63 in 1995, 2.75 in 1996, 4.2 in 1997, 3.2 in 1998 and 3.64 in 1999.

Average votes to affirm the Second District was 3.57 in 2000, 5.67 in 2001, 2.44 in 2002, 3.38 in 2003, 2.13 in 2004, 5.18 in 2005, 1.5 in 2006, 2.2 in 2007, 3.5 in 2008 and 5.5 in 2009.

Average votes to affirm was consistent for the first three years of the next decade: 3.31 in 2010, 3.67 in 2011 and 3.33 in 2012. The average was 5.4 in 2013, 4.2 in 2014, 2 in 2015, 0 in 2016, 1.75 in 2017, 3.83 in 2018 and 1.67 in 2019.

Next time, we’ll review average votes to affirm criminal cases from the Third District.

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