Yesterday, we compared the Illinois and California Supreme Court’s death penalty caseloads between 1992, the beginning of our California data, through 2010, when Illinois abolished the death penalty. We found that in the years prior to Governor George Ryan’s 2010 moratorium on executions, Illinois both averaged more death penalty cases per year and was more
[The posts for today and tomorrow will be cross-posted, in slightly revised form, in the California Supreme Court Review.]
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the death penalty jurisprudence of the Illinois and California Supreme Courts here and at our sister blog the California Supreme Court Review.
Yesterday, we took an in-depth look at the Court’s tort law caseload. We showed that the Court has both accepted for review a larger share of plaintiffs’ wins from the Appellate Court than defense wins, and has reversed those plaintiffs’ wins more often. Today, we’re taking another look at the Court’s death penalty cases.
Overall,
Last week, we reviewed the year-by-year data for the Court’s tort law caseload. This week, we’re answering our usual second week questions: (1) did the Court decide more defense or plaintiffs’ wins; (2) did the Court reverse either side’s wins at a higher rate; and (3) how often did the Court reverse tort decisions, either
Yesterday, we reviewed the Court’s year by year caseload of tort cases. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s death penalty cases.
The Court decided fifteen death penalty cases in 1990, thirteen cases in 1991, twenty-three cases in 1992, thirteen cases in 1993, seventeen cases in 1994, eighteen cases in 1995 and twenty cases in 1996.
For the past two weeks, we’ve taken a close look at the Court’s experience with civil and criminal procedure cases (both here and at our sister blog, the California Supreme Court Review.) This week, we’re reviewing the Court’s tort cases and death penalty decisions.
For the entire period from 1990 to 2017, the
Yesterday, we took a detailed look at the Court’s civil procedure decisions. Today, we’re taking a look at the Court’s criminal procedure cases.
In 1990, the Court affirmed 6 prosecution wins in criminal procedure cases. The Court affirmed 3 times in 1991, twice in 1993 and 1994, 1 time in 1995, 2 in 1996, five
Last week, we tracked the Supreme Court’s year-by-year record with civil and criminal procedure cases. This week, we’re taking a deeper look to address several questions: (1) did the Court tend to take more defendants’ or plaintiffs’ wins from the Appellate Court? (2) did the Court reverse either defense or plaintiffs’ wins at a higher
Yesterday, we began our analysis of the Court’s procedural cases with a review of the year-by-year data on the Court’s civil procedure cases. Today, we’re looking at the Court’s criminal procedure cases. For the entire period 1990-2017, the Court has decided a total of 307 cases whose primary issue involved criminal procedure.
The Court decided
For the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the Court’s constitutional law decisions, both on the civil and criminal sides of the docket. This week and next, we’ll be looking at the Court’s procedure cases – decisions that turn on civil and criminal procedure issues. So first – how many civil