Criminal Case Legal Representation Dashboard
Errata: [December 12, 2025] On May 7, 2025, the Office of the Public Defender began declaring itself unavailable to take new cases. On June 6, 2025, the Court implemented a temporary code for recording unavailability declarations, and on June 25, 2025, the Court instructed all clerks to use only the new code. Because identifying unavailability declarations was not standardized until June 25, the Court had to rely on multiple querying approaches to count unavailability declarations in May and June 2025. These methods were designed to return unique counts of cases, but it was discovered that the dashboard was adding the distinct counts in ways that created unintended duplicates and overstated the May and June values. While there are some rare circumstances in which unavailability can legitimately be declared twice in a case, the Court has modified the unavailability chart such that only unique case counts are now displayed. The change primarily impacts May and June, before coding was standardized, but there are also some small changes to subsequent months. The remaining three charts on the dashboard are unaffected by the revision. The first chart counts only conflicts, and the last two have always been unique case counts, utilizing the filing and active pending caseload queries of the criminal performance measures dashboard. Moving forward, only the conflict chart will contain any duplicates, as more than one conflict appointment is sometimes made in the lifetime of the same case.