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inlawrev-3523	Hoffman, Richard B.; Mahoney, Barry	Managing Caseflow in State Intermediate Appellate Courts: What Mechanisms, Practices, and Procedures Can Work to Reduce Delay?	2002	90	.pdf	application/pdf	38588	1665	52	Key operational problems identified as common to many appellate courts include delays in the preparation and filing oftrial court transcripts, delays in the appointment of appellate counsel for indigent defendants, case overloads facing attorneys responsible for handling appeals in small law offices and in the offices of major institutional litigants, leniency on the part of appellate courts in the granting ofextensions oftime to file briefs, the sheer complexity ofsome cases, and (in some courts) the existence ofa large backlog ofundecided cases. When appellate courts cannot manage their business well, they contribute to a negative model of court processes and tend to undermine public trust in the legal system.	cache/inlawrev-3523.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3523.txt