jury trials
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Report: Colorado’s federal trial court saw drop in criminal trials, explosion in insurance verdicts
The number of criminal jury trials dropped significantly in Colorado’s federal trial court, insurance cases made up half of all civil jury trials and self-represented litigants only filed one-quarter of all lawsuits last year. Those were the trends highlighted in an annual report of the U.S. District Court’s workload presented last week by Chief U.S.…
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Colorado’s federal trial court experienced record trial delay, historic acquittal rate in 2022
Colorado’s federal trial court last year saw civil cases take an unprecedented amount of time – more than 43 months since filing, on average – to reach a jury trial, as well as a historically high rate of acquittals in criminal cases. On Aug. 30, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty presented a wide-ranging statistical report about…