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The latest data on the ever-growing federal criminal caseload

By Douglas A. Berman

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has recently issued this news release, titled "Workload of the Federal Courts Grows in Fiscal Year 2008."  Here are some details that should interest federal sentencing fans: For FY 2008, the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2008, filings in the regional courts of appeals rose 5 percent to 61,104. The overall growth stemmed from increases in civil appeals of prisoner petitions, appeals of administrative agency decisions, involving the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and criminal appeals of drug cases.... Criminal appeals rose 4 percent to 13,667.  An amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines issued in 2007 reduced penalties for most crack cocaine offenses, and affected the number of appeals in non-marijuana drug cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).