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Fascinating new TRAC report on Judge Sotomayor's sentencing record

By Douglas A. Berman

The folks at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) hav produced a fascintaing report on the sentencing patterns of Judge Sotomayor when she was a district judge.  This TRAC press release describes the report as a "first-of-its kind analysis of the sentences imposed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her six years as a federal trial judge," which was developed based on "records concerning more than 7,000 cases handled by the 52 federal judges who served in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) from FY 1993 to FY 1998."  The full report is available at this link, and here is how it starts: A case-by-case examination of the sentences imposed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her six years as a trial judge in the Southern District of New York has determined that she was more likely than her colleagues to send a person to prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).