Judicial processing of defendants
Processing of criminal defendants in the United States, including data from Federal, State, juvenile, and military courts is detailed in Section 5. Cases filed, terminated, and pending in courts; defendants prosecuted, convicted and sentenced; types and lengths of sentences imposed; and appeals are among the topics included.
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Topics in Section 5
Juvenile courts
- Characteristics of juvenile offenders
- Dispositions
Large county courts
- Characteristics of felony defendants
- Convictions of felony defendants
- Felony defendants, number
- Pretrial processing of felony defendants
- Prior convictions of felony defendants
- Sentencing of felony defendants
State courts
- Characteristics of defendants
- Convictions, sentences per 100 arrests
- Felons sentenced to additional penalties
- Felony convictions
- Sentences imposed
- Time to sentencing
U.S. Courts of Appeals
- Appeals filed, terminated, and pending
U.S. District Courts
- Antitrust cases filed
- Cases filed, terminated, and pending
- Case dispositions, convictions
- Defendants detained
- Drug law violators, case dispositions and sentences
- Pretrial release and detention
- Prisoner petitions
- Sentences imposed
- Time to disposition of cases
U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines
- Application
- Citizens and non-citizens sentenced
- Departures
U.S. Supreme Court
- Cases argued
- Cases filed, disposed, and pending
- Writ of certiorari petitions
Other
- Abuse of public office cases
- Arrests and convictions handled by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
- Convictions resulting from arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Courts-martial cases of the U.S. armed forces
- Executive clemency applications
- Grand jury proceedings and cases filed and disposed of by U.S. attorneys
- Immigration offenders processed
- Wiretaps, interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications
- Prosecutions and convictions for violations of immigration and nationality laws
- Requests for immunity by Federal prosecutors