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Interesting criminal caseload data in year-end report by the Chief Justice

By Douglas A. Berman

A true sign of being a law geek is being excited to to spend part of the first morning of the new year checking out the traditional "Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary" from the Chief Justice of the United States. This year's version, which can be accessed here, is impressively minimalist in its prose, but it includes these notable criminal justice caseload statistics: Criminal case filings (including transfers) rose 8% to 76,655, and the number of defendants climbed 6% to 97,982, surpassing the previous record for the number of defendants, 92,714, set in 2003.  The number of criminal cases reached its highest level since 1932, the year before ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed prohibition.  In that year, 92,174 criminal cases were filed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 01, 2010 (boomark / email).