Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
That federal criminal trials are an endangered species is clear. During fiscal year 2004, only 4% (3346) of the 83,391 federal defendants in terminated cases went to trial. And, trends that Professor Ronald Wright highlights in his insightful article have continued past the end point of his data. In 1994, 4639 defendants obtained verdicts from juries and 1050 from judges; in 2003, just 2909 and 615, respectively, did so. Every time one thinks that the system has hit an equilibrium at some “natural” distribution, the trial rate goes down a bit more.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law
Recommended Citation
Daniel C. Richman,
Judging Untried Cases,
156
U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra
219
(2007).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3380
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