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
- 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
- Characteristics of defendants
- Convictions, sentences per 100 arrests
- Felons sentenced to additional penalties
- Felony convictions
- Sentences imposed
- Time to sentencing
- 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
- Chracteristics of offenders sentenced
- Citizens and non-citizens sentenced
- Departures from guidelines
- Plea versus trial
- Sentence type and length
- Abuse of public office, public corruption
- 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 actions
- 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