District of Utah

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 779
Noncitizens, FY2025: 45%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 421
Detained, FY2025: 77.9%

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	84%651	651
Prison and alternatives	<1%3	3
Probation and alternatives	1%7	7
Probation only	15%113	113
Fine only	1%5	5

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 30 months (mean 44) for the 654 sentenced to prison, 1 of them to life; 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	34%267	267
Immigration	28%221	221
Firearms	15%116	116
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	6%46	46
Money Launder	3%26	26
Sex Abuse	3%26	26
Child Pornography	2%18	18
Robbery	2%14	14
Administration of Justice	1%11	11
Assault	1%7	7
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%5	5
Environmental	1%4	4
Prison Offenses	1%4	4
Stalking/Harassing	<1%3	3
Drug Possession	<1%2	2
Food and Drug	<1%2	2
Tax	<1%2	2
Bribery/Corruption	<1%1	1
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
National Defense	<1%1	1

All 779 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	165	177	187	244	281	276	232	267
Immigration	226	160	234	120	95	140	86	221
Firearms	117	168	127	139	196	167	174	116
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	61	50	36	24	32	32	40	46
Sex Abuse	20	12	17	14	27	37	19	26
Money Launder	12	9	19	27	20	23	19	26
Child Pornography	17	24	16	20	21	20	18	18
Robbery	27	21	16	18	19	13	15	14
Administration of Justice	2	6	6	7	9	7	10	11
Assault	8	4	1	4	6	14	8	7
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	10	5	6	5	2	11	5
Prison Offenses	4	7	1	5	7	10	5	4
Drug Possession	12	3	5	5	0	3	1	2
Tax	1	1	2	3	4	4	2	2
Environmental	3	5	0	2	1	0	1	4
Other	2	3	5	0	4	1	1	0
Manslaughter	1	3	1	3	1	4	2	0
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	2	3	1	1	1	3
Burglary/Trespass	2	1	0	8	2	0	0	1
Food and Drug	0	0	1	2	3	1	1	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	3	0	0	0	3	1	1
Murder	2	1	0	1	0	1	3	1
Arson	2	0	0	2	4	0	0	0
National Defense	1	2	1	0	1	0	1	1
Bribery/Corruption	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
Commercialized Vice	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Kidnapping	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Antitrust	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	692	674	685	658	741	761	653	779

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	55%425	425
Not a U.S. citizen	45%348	348
Citizenship not known	1%6	6

221 of the 779 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 8 placed by CrimeDB	57%444	444
White+MENA, 5 placed by CrimeDB	30%236	236
Black	8%62	62
AIAN, 1 placed by CrimeDB	4%27	27
Asian+NHPI	1%6	6
Race unknown	1%4	4

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 779 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 14 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	41%320	320
II	17%135	135
III	16%122	122
IV	7%53	53
V	5%41	41
VI	14%105	105
Category not known	<1%3	3

All 779 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	24%188	188
Above the range	2%18	18
Below the range, government-sponsored	64%498	498
Below the range, not government-sponsored	10%74	74
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 779 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	421	328	93	77.9%	22.1%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	420	327	93	77.9%	22.1%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	301	211	90	70.1%	29.9%

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 Utah, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	671	367	208	96	173
FY2003	877	496	309	72	229
FY2004	868	548	260	60	182
FY2005	941	568	298	75	197
FY2006	979	470	392	117	264
FY2007	916	469	368	79	257
FY2008	870	382	407	81	259
FY2009	835	386	355	94	245
FY2010	900	402	438	60	336
FY2011	1,086	381	661	44	512
FY2012	675	284	342	49	227
FY2013	702	292	361	49	266
FY2014	624	322	285	17	232
FY2015	618	321	291	6	247
FY2016	684	351	326	7	273
FY2017	734	364	364	6	303
FY2018	692	376	308	8	226
FY2019	674	425	246	3	160
FY2020	685	362	320	3	234
FY2021	658	458	198	2	120
FY2022	741	526	212	3	95
FY2023	761	479	279	3	140
FY2024	653	432	219	2	86
FY2025	779	425	348	6	221

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 Utah, 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	671	485	13	19	126	23	5	75%	1
FY2003*	877	679	18	23	119	31	7	80%	2
FY2004	868	694	18	34	93	28	1	82%	1
FY2005*	941	770	16	11	95	48	1	84%	5
FY2006	979	821	12	15	81	47	3	85%	0
FY2007	916	767	24	27	71	24	3	87%	0
FY2008*	870	727	11	23	91	18	0	85%	1
FY2009	835	658	17	18	115	27	0	81%	3
FY2010*	900	731	24	17	82	45	1	84%	1
FY2011	1,086	780	14	14	246	32	0	73%	1
FY2012	675	549	5	7	81	32	1	82%	0
FY2013	702	602	4	4	60	32	0	86%	1
FY2014	624	531	6	6	58	23	0	86%	0
FY2015	618	497	7	5	101	8	0	82%	0
FY2016	684	524	7	5	137	11	0	78%	0
FY2017	734	566	2	7	152	7	0	77%	2
FY2018	692	580	6	0	106	0	0	85%	0
FY2019*	674	580	11	6	70	7	0	88%	0
FY2020	685	553	10	4	113	5	0	82%	0
FY2021	658	577	5	1	72	3	0	88%	1
FY2022	741	660	4	2	73	2	0	90%	0
FY2023	761	654	1	2	99	5	0	86%	0
FY2024*	653	555	2	11	85	0	0	85%	0
FY2025	779	651	3	7	113	5	0	84%	1

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 Utah, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	35	21	666	48	33	479
FY2003*	38	27	872	49	33	683
FY2004	42	30	867	51	37	711
FY2005*	49	30	940	59	37	783
FY2006	43	30	976	51	37	819
FY2007	41	27	913	48	33	782
FY2008*	40	24	870	48	30	732
FY2009	38	24	835	48	33	658
FY2010*	33	21	900	40	30	721
FY2011	33	15	1,086	47	30	745
FY2012	38	18	675	50	30	505
FY2013	35	21	702	44	30	560
FY2014	29	12	624	37	24	492
FY2015	32	15	618	43	24	456
FY2016	30	12	684	43	30	480
FY2017	31	12	734	44	24	512
FY2018	35	21	692	41	24	586
FY2019*	35	24	674	39	30	591
FY2020	30	15	685	37	24	563
FY2021	36	24	658	41	30	582
FY2022	37	30	741	41	33	664
FY2023	39	27	761	45	33	655
FY2024*	37	30	653	43	36	557
FY2025	37	22	779	44	30	654

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 Utah by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Immigration	173	229	182	197	264	257	259	245
Firearms	142	233	248	199	161	164	143	113
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	76	147	180	226	202	170	158	129
Fraud	63	40	69	88	98	102	74	96
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	32	47	46	54	61	40	50	74
Drugs - Simple Possession	55	49	25	32	42	22	12	23
Pornography/Prostitution	14	17	10	25	35	38	28	41
Robbery	25	24	27	24	13	26	14	22
Larceny	25	23	19	19	17	13	9	19
Sexual Abuse	6	3	7	7	13	15	11	14
Administration of Justice	9	5	2	12	15	14	9	7
Racketeering/Extortion	5	6	4	16	7	5	19	5
Assault	6	8	6	8	7	5	9	15
Forgery/Counterfeiting	14	9	10	6	4	3	13	2
Tax Offenses	2	9	4	4	9	7	10	4
Prison Offenses	5	2	3	5	5	5	11	6
Money Laundering	1	3	4	4	6	6	11	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	6	1	5	3	6	3	4	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	1	1	3	3	4	8	6
Embezzlement	5	4	3	0	3	5	4	1
Manslaughter	1	1	4	0	2	1	4	2
Arson	1	0	1	4	4	0	1	1
Food and Drug Offenses	2	3	2	2	0	2	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	1	0	1	4	1	1
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
Auto Theft	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
Bribery	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Offense type not known	1	10	0	0	1	2	0	0
All offenses	671	877	868	941	979	916	870	835

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 Utah by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Immigration	336	512	227	266	232	247	273	303
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	145	170	142	132	108	82	112	139
Firearms	132	132	99	96	82	103	114	111
Fraud	64	72	43	60	54	59	49	52
Child Pornography	26	34	30	23	18	20	32	29
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	38	37	29	33	18	18	14	11
Drugs - Simple Possession	21	25	32	22	20	5	14	12
Robbery	27	15	11	17	8	12	12	10
Administration of Justice	10	5	17	6	17	10	11	10
Prison Offenses	8	10	7	6	10	11	10	11
Sexual Abuse	15	9	4	1	4	6	9	12
Assault	11	13	3	5	7	7	5	4
Larceny	14	11	3	3	3	7	6	6
Money Laundering	3	4	3	5	21	9	3	2
Tax Offenses	7	11	6	2	9	4	2	6
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	17	10	4	1	4	2	2	1
Racketeering/Extortion	7	10	5	0	3	4	5	6
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	1	1	13	0	3	0	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	0	4	3	1	4	3	0
Embezzlement	3	4	1	1	2	2	1	2
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1
Bribery	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1
Gambling/Lottery	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Antitrust Violations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	900	1,086	675	702	624	618	684	734

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 Utah by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	267	34%
Immigration	221	28%
Firearms	116	15%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	46	6%
Money Launder	26	3%
Sex Abuse	26	3%
Child Pornography	18	2%
Robbery	14	2%
Administration of Justice	11	1%
Assault	7	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	1%
Environmental	4	1%
Prison Offenses	4	1%
Stalking/Harassing	3	<1%
Drug Possession	2	<1%
Food and Drug	2	<1%
Tax	2	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	1	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
National Defense	1	<1%

All 779 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 Utah by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	444	8	57%
White+MENA	236	5	30%
Black	62	0	8%
AIAN	27	1	4%
Asian+NHPI	6	0	1%
Race unknown	4	0	1%

All 779 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 14 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 Utah by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	320	41%
II	135	17%
III	122	16%
IV	53	7%
V	41	5%
VI	105	14%
Category not known	3	<1%

All 779 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 Utah against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	188	24%
Above the range	18	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	498	64%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	74	10%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 779 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 Utah, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	475	213	262	44.8%	55.2%
FY2007	450	209	241	46.4%	53.6%
FY2008	372	159	213	42.7%	57.3%
FY2009	373	163	210	43.7%	56.3%
FY2010	320	152	168	47.5%	52.5%
FY2011	268	115	153	42.9%	57.1%
FY2012	228	109	119	47.8%	52.2%
FY2013	307	122	185	39.7%	60.3%
FY2014	273	120	153	44.0%	56.0%
FY2015	363	212	151	58.4%	41.6%
FY2016	379	230	149	60.7%	39.3%
FY2017	425	287	138	67.5%	32.5%
FY2018	609	412	197	67.7%	32.3%
FY2019	549	404	145	73.6%	26.4%
FY2020	460	278	182	60.4%	39.6%
FY2021	644	448	196	69.6%	30.4%
FY2022	586	390	196	66.6%	33.4%
FY2023	625	415	210	66.4%	33.6%
FY2024	541	369	172	68.2%	31.8%
FY2025	421	328	93	77.9%	22.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	475	213	262	44.8%	55.2%
FY2007	449	208	241	46.3%	53.7%
FY2008	372	159	213	42.7%	57.3%
FY2009	363	153	210	42.1%	57.9%
FY2010	319	151	168	47.3%	52.7%
FY2011	268	115	153	42.9%	57.1%
FY2012	228	109	119	47.8%	52.2%
FY2013	307	122	185	39.7%	60.3%
FY2014	268	116	152	43.3%	56.7%
FY2015	362	211	151	58.3%	41.7%
FY2016	374	225	149	60.2%	39.8%
FY2018	594	398	196	67.0%	33.0%
FY2019	535	390	145	72.9%	27.1%
FY2020	452	270	182	59.7%	40.3%
FY2021	642	446	196	69.5%	30.5%
FY2022	586	390	196	66.6%	33.4%
FY2023	624	415	209	66.5%	33.5%
FY2024	540	368	172	68.1%	31.9%
FY2025	420	327	93	77.9%	22.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	482	288	194	59.8%	40.2%
FY2023	493	286	207	58.0%	42.0%
FY2024	416	248	168	59.6%	40.4%
FY2025	301	211	90	70.1%	29.9%

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