Ask and ye shall receive … Booker data

In this post yesterday, I noted my eagerness for post-Booker data.  Thanks to the kind folks at the US Sentencing Commission, I now have (and can share for downloading below) the USSC’s “last complete data cut” which was prepared on February 28 and reflects all post-Booker cases received by the USSC as of February 17.  (These materials are also now posted on the USSC’s Booker/Fanfan page.)

These data reports cover 2,056 total cases, though in the USSC’s analysis 70 cases had to be excluded due to incomplete or missing information. Thus, for the five weeks post-Booker, we have nearly 2000 cases to chew on (which is, of course, only one-third of what would have moved through the system if it were operating at a pre-Booker pace of 1,200 cases/week).   The data is fascinating and the memos below are so clear (and brief) that I will let them speak for themselves.  Importantly, USSC folks indicated that the “next data cut” will be likely taken around the end of this month.

Download ussc_booker_data_memo_022805.pdf

Download ussc_fy02_and_postbooker_district_counts_030105.pdf