Latest post-Booker data from the USSC

The US Sentencing Commission has a new batch of post-Booker sentencing data on its website, and just in time for this week’s National Seminar on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in Salt Lake City (details of this exciting event are set out in this event brochure).  This new data, available here, is the “FY2007 2nd Quarterly Sentencing Update,” which provides an “extensive set of tables and charts presenting cumulative quarterly data on cases sentenced in fiscal year 2007. The numbers are prepared using data sentenced by close-of-business on March 31, 2007 and received, coded, and edited by the Commission by May 1, 2007.”

Based on a very quick overview, it appear that the well-established post-Booker trends of most sentences being within the guidelines persists.  It will be very interesting to see if Claiborne and Rita ultimately disrupt what have now become relatively clear (and boring?) post-Booker sentencing realities.