Jon Eisenberg, the Healdsburg attorney who has accused the Third District Court of Appeal of allowing cases to languish for years, sued the Sacramento-based appellate court Tuesday for failing to fast-track criminal appeals.

The writ petition, filed in the state Supreme Court, said the court has “systematically failed” to give statutorily mandated calendar preference to at least 278 criminal appeals since 2018. Defendants in those fully briefed cases have waited—sometimes for years—for a final disposition, the suit alleged.

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