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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2004, $85,530)
This project will examine the time allotments for each major component of the direct review process in death sentence cases. For death penalty cases direct review is conducted by the state court of last resort (COLR). It also includes the first (discretionary) appeal to the United States Supreme Court (USSC). The cases for this project will be drawn from 14 representative states in which the state COLRs rendered a decision on direct review between 1900 and 1999. The selected states to be studied were selected to insure variability in the number of death sentences, reversals, and executions. Cases will be identified by use of existing datasets, through Lexis and Westlaw and based on information provided by the COLR clerks. The principal goal is to determine the time allocations by each state studied for each component of the direct review process and to explain the differences in processing time across states.
Grant-Funded Datasets
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