Up-to-date post-Booker data from the USSC

As I had hoped, the USSC’s hearing and meeting this week (background here) has led the US Sentencing Commission to update, and post on its Booker page, the USSC’s latest collection of “post-Booker cases received, coded, and edited as part of the Commission’s post-Booker project.” 

The Commission latest numbers, which are based on data extracted at close-of-business on April 5, 2005, are available at this link. (Kudos yet again to the USSC for continuing to disseminate this data “in real time.”)   Notably, this latest data run encompasses around 9,000 cases, and the USSC’s memo provides basic case processing numbers broken down by primary offense categories and by circuit and district.

I hope to have some commentary on these latest numbers late tonight after I get a chance to review them in detail.  In the meantime, readers are invited to share their insights on the meaning of this latest data.