It's no secret that Delaware, like essentially everywhere else, has a huge number of trials scheduled for the coming months with many of our judges double and triple-booked with trials. As the pandemic backlog finally begins to clear, I thought it might be interesting to see if this congestion was having any effect on when trials were being scheduled for new cases., compared to our historical average. To that end, below is the current average time from scheduling order to trial for each of our Article 3 judges based on their 5 most recent schedules:
- ANDREWS - 23.8 Months
- CONNOLLY - 24.1 Months
- NOREIKA - 25.3 Months
- STARK - 24.2 Months
I was a bit surprised that these figures were pretty much exactly in-line with the historical average of about 2 years. Of course, it remains to be seen how these cases will hold -- especially with the potential departure of Judge Stark -- but its nice to see the district humming along at its usual pace again.
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