2009 Federal Judiciary Report Released
At 6:00 p.m. last night, Chief Justice John Roberts released the 2009 Report on the Federal Judiciary. The number of criminal cases filed reached its highest level since 1932:
Criminal case filings (including transfers) rose 8% to 76,655, and the number of defendants climbed 6% to 97,982, surpassing the previous record for the number of defendants, 92,714, set in 2003. The number of criminal cases reached its highest level since 1932, the year before ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed prohibition. In that year, 92,174 criminal cases were filed.
The number of marijuana cases increased while the number of other drug, firearms and explosives cases declined. Immigration cases increased big-time: [More...]
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