Length of Prosecution Times: Weapons Cases

  Fiscal Year
92 93 94 95 96
Federal
District
  195 203 393 278 414
Ill, N median time for prosecution (days)
average time for prosecution (days) 266 280 523 434 574
# prosecutions completed 96 78 33 27 19
median time before declined (days) 445 519 691 631 1,045
average time before declined (days) 552 606 691 644 1,039
# of referrals with prosecution
declined
60 54 119 50 26

Data cover: fiscal year (all), district (all),
referral agency (all), lead charge (all), program category (weapons)

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