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National data reported by the US Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics show a disturbing increase in state court felony delay after 2000. From 2002 through 2006 (the latest year for which national felony data for state courts are available), there was an alarming increase in median times from felony arrest to sentencing, going from a median time of 149 days in 1996 to a median time of 265 days in 2006. This was an increase of 78% in the median time to sentencing, even though the increase in felony convictions from 1996 to 2006 (13%) was in fact less than the increase in total judicial officers (14%).
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