ICPSR Metadata record for Analyzing Trial Time in California, Colorado, and New Jersey, 1986 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Analyzing Trial Time in California, Colorado, and New Jersey, 1986 Sipes, Dale Anne Oram, Mary Elsner Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-01-18 9223 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09223.v1
This study of nine courts was undertaken to identify procedural factors that can be used to reduce the length of criminal and civil trials without impairing fairness. The data collection provides direct information on the actual amount of time consumed by various trial segments and the perceived length of trial segments as gauged by judges and attorneys. In addition, data are supplied on the legal community's attitudes toward existing trial length, reasons for it, and judicial control over it. The trial case file contains information on types of cases and trials, estimated trial length, type of disposition, type of defense attorney, number of claims, cross-claims, and counterclaims, number of exhibits introduced, number of expert and lay witnesses called by the defense, number of peremptory challenges, and day and time the trial ended. The questionnaire data contain information on professional experiences, number of cases tried per month, opinions about time consumed by each segment of the trial, estimated time used in each segment, and attitudes toward judicial control over the trial length.
 UniverseScheme09223 Organization09223_1 85-IJ-CX-0044 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.V attitudes attorneys case processing disposition (legal) judges time utilization trial procedures trials California, Colorado, New Jersey, United States 1986-03 1987-01 survey data Civil and criminal trial cases, trial judges, and civil and criminal attorneys in California, Colorado, and New Jersey. There are two samples. In the trial case sample, cases were obtained from a convenience sample of ongoing trials heard during March 1986-January 1987 in three counties in each of the three states. For the survey, mailing lists of judges, civil plaintiff's attorneys, private criminal defense attorneys, criminal prosecutors, and public defenders were obtained from the court administrator's office at each site. Completed surveys were received from 57 judges (50 percent response rate), 197 criminal attorneys (47 percent), and 131 civil attorneys (38 percent). self-enumerated forms 1986-03 1987-01 ICPSR
AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.
The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 2006-01-18 ICPSR 2006-01-18 File CB9223.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. 2005-01-14 ICPSR 2005-01-14 The second version of the Criminal Trial File (former Part 3 on the download page), which was redundant with Part 2, was removed.