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Appellate Delay As A Catalyst For Change In Virginia, Julie M. Carpenter
Appellate Delay As A Catalyst For Change In Virginia, Julie M. Carpenter
University of Richmond Law Review
A Virginia citizen injured in an automobile accident in 1988 who is denied compensation through trial court error will wait an average of 1,165 days (3.2 years) after trial for the Supreme Court of Virginia to rectify the matter. Of course, that wait is only for the seventeen percent of cases that the supreme court elects to review, since Virginia is one of the only states that grants no right of appeal in most civil and criminal cases. By way of limited contrast, a civil appeal in the North Carolina Supreme Court averages be- tween 241 days and 257 days. …