Minnesota's district courts are the state's trial courts and they are organized into ten judicial districts. Judges elect a chief judge in each district, who appoints a district administrator. A bar chart indicating that the ten judicial districts disposed of between 96 and 99 percent of their major cases within the specified number of months in 1998. The districts did not come close to meeting the first or intermediate timing objectives, however. For some case types, however, such as major criminal and juvenile, the courts are accumulating a backlog.
Data are unavailable on the age of cases in the backlog.