Memorandum

To:	Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley
From:	William L. Martin, III
Subject:	Time Standards on Appeal
Date:	August 20, 1997

Thank you for your memo of August 8th. I shall circulate a copy of my letter to Roger Hanson to the judges on this Court. In response to your comments, the percentages at the end of the response to Question 3 are estimates. I have attached a copy of an aging report showing the number of cases docketed within 30-day increments of the date of the filing of the notice of appeal. In your comment regarding Question 5, you are right in that discretionary appeals pursuant to OCGA §5-6-35 are expedited. Additionally, interlocutory applications are expedited as well. You stated that none of the discretionary applications effect criminal cases. This is technically correct, however, appeals of probation revocations must come up by discretionary application.

Again, thank you for your memo.

WLM , III/ld

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