District of Idaho

A U.S. district court in the Ninth Circuit, in Idaho. Its figures are federal cases and are never added to Idaho's.

People sentenced, FY2025: 309
Noncitizens, FY2025: 24%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 298
Detained, FY2025: 56.0%

Federal sentences

People sentenced in this court under the federal guidelines, by federal fiscal year (October to September), counted by CrimeDB from the Sentencing Commission's records. Dashed lines mark changes in federal sentencing law.

People sentenced, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2003: PROTECT Act, April 30, 2003: appeals courts review departures from the guidelines anew, and the Commission must cut downward departures.
FY2005: United States v. Booker, January 12, 2005: the guidelines become advisory, so FY2005 holds sentences from before and after.
FY2008: Gall and Kimbrough, December 10, 2007: judges may sentence outside the range with less reason given, including over the crack to powder ratio.
FY2010: Fair Sentencing Act, August 3, 2010: crack cocaine thresholds rise and the crack to powder ratio falls from 100 to 1 to about 18 to 1.
FY2019: First Step Act, December 21, 2018: a wider safety valve, no more stacked gun counts, and the crack changes made retroactive.
FY2024: Guideline amendments of November 1, 2023: fewer criminal history points for offenses committed under supervision, and a lower range for people with none.

Sentence type and length, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Prison only	91%281	281
Prison and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation only	8%24	24

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 57 months (mean 68) for the 283 sentenced to prison; life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as the Commission counts them.

Percent sentenced to prison, FY2002 to FY2025

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced by offense, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Drug Trafficking	54%166	166
Immigration	16%49	49
Child Pornography	8%24	24
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	7%22	22
Firearms	4%11	11
Sex Abuse	3%10	10
Assault	2%6	6
Administration of Justice	2%5	5
Antitrust	1%2	2
Prison Offenses	1%2	2
Robbery	1%2	2
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Environmental	<1%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1
Money Launder	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 309 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	120	139	110	98	162	138	146	166
Immigration	98	90	66	16	29	43	41	49
Firearms	61	45	52	40	53	32	29	11
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	40	27	30	26	33	19	24	22
Child Pornography	9	15	13	7	19	16	15	24
Sex Abuse	9	15	11	16	13	10	22	10
Assault	4	8	6	9	4	7	3	6
Administration of Justice	3	10	9	1	4	3	5	5
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	5	3	4	7	2	8	1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	6	7	3	3	1	2	1
Other	5	2	2	1	2	3	2	1
Drug Possession	5	1	1	2	1	4	0	1
Robbery	3	0	4	5	0	0	1	2
Stalking/Harassing	0	2	1	4	1	2	2	1
Tax	2	3	0	2	1	1	2	0
Prison Offenses	1	0	1	1	4	1	0	2
Environmental	1	1	0	1	3	0	2	1
Money Launder	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	1
Bribery/Corruption	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	0
Murder	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	1
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Kidnapping	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	377	372	321	241	337	292	304	309

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Earlier years, under the Commission's older offense types, are in the tables at the foot of the page.

People sentenced by citizenship, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
U.S. citizen	76%234	234
Not a U.S. citizen	24%75	75
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

49 of the 309 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA	56%173	173
Hispanic	35%107	107
AIAN, 1 placed by CrimeDB	6%18	18
Black	2%5	5
Asian+NHPI	2%5	5
Race unknown	<1%1	1

Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer
Race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race

All 309 people sentenced. Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer. Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people. USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 1 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	39%119	119
II	18%57	57
III	16%50	50
IV	8%25	25
V	7%22	22
VI	12%36	36

All 309 people sentenced. By the category the court found, I (least) to VI (most), from points for prior sentences under the guidelines.

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025
Within the range	38%118	118
Above the range	2%6	6
Below the range, government-sponsored	29%91	91
Below the range, not government-sponsored	30%94	94

All 309 people sentenced. In the Commission's four groups. Government-sponsored: the prosecutor moved for it, for substantial assistance, early disposition, or another reason.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention

Defendants whose pretrial services case opened in the fiscal year, and the percent detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints them. Table H-14 counts every case, H-14A leaves out immigration cases, and H-14B, from FY2022, leaves out the cases U.S. Courts classes as illegal alien cases.

Percent detained, all cases (H-14), FY2006 to FY2025

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which cases	Table	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
All cases	H-14	298	167	131	56.0%	44.0%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	258	134	124	51.9%	48.1%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	216	105	111	48.6%	51.4%

Detained: detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints it.

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B.

Every figure as a table

People sentenced in the District of Idaho, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	201	135	66	0	44
FY2003	272	150	113	9	73
FY2004	266	146	117	3	88
FY2005	220	114	98	8	61
FY2006	263	151	107	5	64
FY2007	251	145	105	1	68
FY2008	267	143	120	4	85
FY2009	336	194	139	3	96
FY2010	301	163	136	2	86
FY2011	348	180	167	1	98
FY2012	285	157	128	0	80
FY2013	323	214	109	0	82
FY2014	313	219	94	0	68
FY2015	264	168	95	1	63
FY2016	259	186	73	0	42
FY2017	342	254	88	0	58
FY2018	377	250	127	0	98
FY2019	372	257	114	1	90
FY2020	321	234	87	0	66
FY2021	241	214	27	0	16
FY2022	337	282	55	0	29
FY2023	292	230	62	0	43
FY2024	304	247	57	0	41
FY2025	309	234	75	0	49

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Immigration offenses are the Commission's offense type for the year (OFFTYPE2 to FY2009, OFFTYPSB to FY2017, OFFGUIDE from FY2018).

Sentence type in the District of Idaho, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	Prison only	Prison and alternatives	Probation and alternatives	Probation only	Fine only	Type not known	Sentenced to prison	Life sentences
FY2002	201	152	11	14	19	3	2	82%	1
FY2003*	272	218	12	13	26	1	2	85%	1
FY2004	266	217	8	19	21	1	0	85%	1
FY2005*	220	177	14	9	19	0	1	87%	0
FY2006	263	216	16	12	18	1	0	88%	0
FY2007	251	202	17	14	18	0	0	87%	1
FY2008*	267	233	7	14	13	0	0	90%	0
FY2009	336	285	10	16	25	0	0	88%	1
FY2010*	301	264	7	15	15	0	0	90%	0
FY2011	348	310	14	9	15	0	0	93%	1
FY2012	285	247	13	6	17	2	0	91%	0
FY2013	323	263	13	13	32	2	0	85%	1
FY2014	313	257	12	6	38	0	0	86%	0
FY2015	264	227	3	11	23	0	0	87%	0
FY2016	259	224	10	10	15	0	0	90%	0
FY2017	342	300	11	4	27	0	0	91%	0
FY2018	377	337	9	9	22	0	0	92%	1
FY2019*	372	337	7	13	14	1	0	92%	0
FY2020	321	285	2	12	22	0	0	89%	0
FY2021	241	203	8	8	21	1	0	88%	1
FY2022	337	303	6	4	24	0	0	92%	0
FY2023	292	271	4	1	16	0	0	94%	1
FY2024*	304	270	1	5	28	0	0	89%	0
FY2025	309	281	2	2	24	0	0	92%	0

USSC's sentence types (SENTIMP). Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. Sentenced to prison: prison only, or prison and alternatives, of those whose type is known.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Sentence length in the District of Idaho, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	44	24	199	53	30	163
FY2003*	49	27	270	58	33	227
FY2004	40	30	266	47	33	225
FY2005*	42	24	219	48	27	189
FY2006	46	27	263	53	30	223
FY2007	44	27	251	52	36	212
FY2008*	41	24	267	48	30	225
FY2009	47	27	336	56	37	281
FY2010*	42	24	301	49	30	257
FY2011	42	24	348	49	30	298
FY2012	48	30	285	58	38	235
FY2013	46	24	323	58	34	254
FY2014	46	27	313	59	40	243
FY2015	37	24	264	48	33	204
FY2016	43	24	259	53	36	208
FY2017	52	27	342	61	37	294
FY2018	46	18	377	50	24	346
FY2019*	49	27	372	53	30	344
FY2020	47	28	321	52	31	287
FY2021	57	36	241	65	42	211
FY2022	58	41	337	63	46	309
FY2023	65	46	292	69	48	275
FY2024*	62	46	304	69	57	271
FY2025	62	46	309	68	57	283

Sentence: prison and alternative confinement, with probation and fines as zero (USSC's sentence length). Prison term: prison alone, for those sentenced to prison (USSC's length of imprisonment). Life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as USSC counts them.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	60	77	67	52	89	68	86	90
Immigration	44	73	88	61	64	68	85	96
Firearms	26	42	37	27	33	41	31	54
Fraud	17	10	20	21	12	13	14	23
Administration of Justice	10	11	10	10	13	4	6	10
Assault	9	4	8	11	10	11	8	6
Larceny	11	18	6	6	5	11	3	7
Pornography/Prostitution	3	2	6	5	5	9	8	13
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	5	2	3	6	5	8	7
Sexual Abuse	5	2	8	7	1	5	3	4
Embezzlement	1	3	0	3	3	1	3	6
Money Laundering	0	4	5	3	2	0	1	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	2	2	2	4	2	2	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	3	1	2	3	2	2	2
Robbery	2	5	1	1	0	2	1	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	2
Tax Offenses	3	1	0	1	0	2	3	2
Manslaughter	0	3	0	0	4	2	1	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4
Murder	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Auto Theft	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	201	272	266	220	263	251	267	336

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPE2). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	103	141	85	97	121	94	97	130
Immigration	86	98	80	82	68	63	42	58
Firearms	35	30	31	48	23	23	41	43
Fraud	20	33	14	23	16	36	24	45
Child Pornography	15	10	14	8	11	5	7	18
Administration of Justice	9	7	13	7	10	7	4	5
Assault	5	3	7	3	12	8	11	9
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	5	9	14	4	4	8	5
Larceny	2	2	5	7	9	5	5	4
Money Laundering	1	0	3	7	8	2	1	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	4	2	1	5	0	4	3
Embezzlement	4	0	1	4	4	1	3	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	4	3	4	2	3	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	1	1	6	1	2	5
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	6	5	4	1	1	0
Sexual Abuse	0	2	4	1	3	0	2	4
Tax Offenses	1	2	1	2	1	3	1	3
Robbery	1	1	2	0	1	4	1	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	0	1	3	2	0	1	0
Manslaughter	1	3	0	2	1	0	1	1
Prison Offenses	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	2
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	301	348	285	323	313	264	259	342

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPSB). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	166	54%
Immigration	49	16%
Child Pornography	24	8%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	22	7%
Firearms	11	4%
Sex Abuse	10	3%
Assault	6	2%
Administration of Justice	5	2%
Antitrust	2	1%
Prison Offenses	2	1%
Robbery	2	1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%
Money Launder	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 309 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	173	0	56%
Hispanic	107	0	35%
AIAN	18	1	6%
Black	5	0	2%
Asian+NHPI	5	0	2%
Race unknown	1	0	<1%

All 309 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 1 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Of which placed by CrimeDB: the part of each group CrimeDB placed (race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race); the rest of each group is as USSC recorded it.

People sentenced in the District of Idaho by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	119	39%
II	57	18%
III	50	16%
IV	25	8%
V	22	7%
VI	36	12%

All 309 people sentenced.

The category the court found (XCRHISSR), I (least) to VI (most).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Sentences in the District of Idaho against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	118	38%
Above the range	6	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	91	29%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	94	30%

All 309 people sentenced.

The Commission's four groups (SENTRNGE collapsed as its Sourcebook does).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Idaho, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	258	124	134	48.1%	51.9%
FY2007	326	198	128	60.7%	39.3%
FY2008	351	216	135	61.5%	38.5%
FY2009	378	250	128	66.1%	33.9%
FY2010	356	239	117	67.1%	32.9%
FY2011	302	211	91	69.9%	30.1%
FY2012	337	213	124	63.2%	36.8%
FY2013	338	213	125	63.0%	37.0%
FY2014	260	177	83	68.1%	31.9%
FY2015	302	177	125	58.6%	41.4%
FY2016	291	188	103	64.6%	35.4%
FY2017	307	203	104	66.1%	33.9%
FY2018	374	251	123	67.1%	32.9%
FY2019	363	244	119	67.2%	32.8%
FY2020	288	182	106	63.2%	36.8%
FY2021	275	168	107	61.1%	38.9%
FY2022	230	141	89	61.3%	38.7%
FY2023	300	186	114	62.0%	38.0%
FY2024	290	186	104	64.1%	35.9%
FY2025	298	167	131	56.0%	44.0%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Idaho, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	204	71	133	34.8%	65.2%
FY2007	243	115	128	47.3%	52.7%
FY2008	257	124	133	48.2%	51.8%
FY2009	280	154	126	55.0%	45.0%
FY2010	264	149	115	56.4%	43.6%
FY2011	207	116	91	56.0%	44.0%
FY2012	253	131	122	51.8%	48.2%
FY2013	259	134	125	51.7%	48.3%
FY2014	203	121	82	59.6%	40.4%
FY2015	244	120	124	49.2%	50.8%
FY2016	249	146	103	58.6%	41.4%
FY2017	255	151	104	59.2%	40.8%
FY2018	286	163	123	57.0%	43.0%
FY2019	285	168	117	58.9%	41.1%
FY2020	238	136	102	57.1%	42.9%
FY2021	253	149	104	58.9%	41.1%
FY2022	205	116	89	56.6%	43.4%
FY2023	254	145	109	57.1%	42.9%
FY2024	257	159	98	61.9%	38.1%
FY2025	258	134	124	51.9%	48.1%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Idaho, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	195	106	89	54.4%	45.6%
FY2023	239	132	107	55.2%	44.8%
FY2024	232	139	93	59.9%	40.1%
FY2025	216	105	111	48.6%	51.4%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.