New Federal Criminal Census

Criminal Law: Federal Criminal Code Section

SECTION 1001 of the Criminal Code provides criminal sanctions against persons who deal fraudulently with government agencies.1 Although the origin of the statute dates from 1863,2 only recently have Government attorneys made frequent use of its provisions. In United States v. Diogo, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supplemented the increasing body of judicial interpretation of sectio...

Criminal Procedure: Negligent Suppression of Evidence as Ground for New Trial in Federal Criminal

IN United States v. Consolidated Laundries Corp.' the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has expanded the scope of the public prosecutor's duty to secure a fair trial to defendants in criminal proceedings. A new trial was ordered on the finding that material evidence had been "negligently suppressed." Consolidated arose as an antitrust prosecution against a number of linen supply companies...

Removal of Defendants in Federal Criminal Procedure

Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases

Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences

Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case and defendant characteristics, including arrest offense and criminal history, can explain most of the large raw racial disparity in federal sentences, but significant gaps remain. Across the distribution, blacks receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer than those of comparable whites ar...