New Sentencing Commission Reports

Two reports released by the Sentencing Commission this week: "Overview of Federal Criminal Cases, Fiscal Year 2007" and, "Changing Face of Federal Criminal Sentencing: Seventeen Years of Growth in the Federal Sentencing Caseload" (both available here). The first is a broad based reference on the types of federal criminal cases and the corresponding sentences; the second is a demographic make-up of federal offenders from 1991 through 2007 following trends and sentences over the last seventeen years. Both have valuable information for the federal practitioner.