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Effective Date:	N/A
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Appellate
Implementing Authority:	N/A
Status:	N/A
Time Standards:	Colorado has no case processing time standards for the appellate court system.
	Colorado Time Standards

Effective Date:	July 2008
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Trial
Case Type:	Civil
Implementing Authority:	Supreme Court Directive 08-05
Status:	Voluntary
Time Standards:	Organizational Goals General: (filing to disposition) 90% within 1 year County Court: General: (filing to disposition) 95% within 6 months Small Claims: 99% within 6 months Benchmarks for Individual Judges General: 80% within 18 months County Court: General 80% within 6 months Small Claims: 80% within 6 months

Effective Date:	July 2008
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Trial
Case Type:	Criminal
Implementing Authority:	Supreme Court Directive 08-05
Status:	Voluntary
Time Standards:	Organizational Goals Criminal: 95% within 1 year County Court: Misdemeanor: 90% within 6 months Traffic: 95% within 6 months DUI/DWAI: 80% within 7 months Benchmarks for Individual Judges 90% within 1 year County Court Misdemeanor: 80% within 6 months Traffic: 80% within 6 months DUI/DWAI: 80% within 7 months

Effective Date:	July 2008
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Trial
Case Type:	Domestic
Implementing Authority:	Supreme Court Directive 08-05
Status:	Voluntary
Time Standards:	Organizational Goals General: 95% within 1 year Benchmarks for Individual Judges General: 90% within 18 months

Effective Date:	July 2008
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Trial
Case Type:	Juvenile
Implementing Authority:	Supreme Court Directive 08-05
Status:	Voluntary
Time Standards:	Organizational Goals General: 95% within 1 year Juvenile Delinquency: 95% within 1 year Dependency and Neglect: 95% within 18 months Expedited Permanency Plan: 90% within 1 year Benchmarks for Individual Judges General: 90% within 1 year Delinquency: 5% within 1 year Dependency and Neglect: 95% within 18 months Expedited Permanency Plan 90% within 1 year

Effective Date:	July 2008
State:	Colorado
Court Type:	Trial
Case Type:	Misc
Implementing Authority:	Chief Justice Directive 08-05
Status:	Voluntary
Time Standards:	Organizational Goals County Court: Infractions: 99% within 6 months Benchmarks for Individual Judges County Court Infractions: 95% within 6 months


Monitoring Information:	Colorado documents court performance relevant to time standards on a statewide level. Reports are available to the public through open records requests, and are published in the annual reports. The clerk of court, the presiding/chief judge, the local court administrator, the state court administrator, and the AOC staff receive reports/summaries with time standards. These reports/summaries are reviewed both monthly and quarterly.
Notes:	The measure that Colorado finds to be most useful in determining court timeliness is % of cases exceeding existing time standards. Changes were made to Time Standards in July of 2008, by the Chief Justice Directive 08-05.