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Judges and Judiciary

Feb. 20, 2015

Southern District judges sentence more criminals than anywhere else in the state

Federal judges based along the Southwest border, including California's Southern District, sentence more criminal defendants than anywhere else in the U.S., according to a report released Tuesday.


By Deirdre Newman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Federal judges based along the Southwest border, including in California's Southern District, sentence more criminal defendants than anywhere else in the U.S., according to a report released Tuesday.


Conducted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center at Syracuse University, the study examined the records of all U.S. criminal cases that reached ...

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