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Mining (and spinning?) the latest, greatest sentencing data from the US Sentencing Commission

By Douglas A. Berman

The US Sentencing Commission has some fresh new sentencing data just up on its website. The USSC's latest data report, which can be accessed here, is described this way: Third Quarter FY10 Quarterly Sentencing Update:  An extensive set of tables and charts presenting fiscal year quarterly data on cases in which the offender was sentenced through the third quarter of fiscal year 2010.  The report also provides an analysis of sentencing trends over five years for several key sentencing practices. (Published September 3, 2010) The new data continue to show a very slow and very steady migration away from guideline ranges: over the nearly 60,000 federal cases sentencing in this period, just under 55% of all federal sentences fell within the calculated guidelines range...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).