Eastern District of California

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 472
Noncitizens, FY2025: 23%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 356
Detained, FY2025: 62.9%

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	96%451	451
Prison and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	1%4	4
Probation only	3%15	15
Fine only	<1%1	1

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 86) for the 452 sentenced to prison, 5 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	52%247	247
Firearms	16%73	73
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11%50	50
Sex Abuse	4%18	18
Immigration	4%17	17
Administration of Justice	2%11	11
Child Pornography	2%9	9
Money Launder	2%9	9
Tax	2%7	7
Assault	1%6	6
Murder	1%5	5
Stalking/Harassing	1%4	4
Arson	<1%2	2
Environmental	<1%2	2
Kidnapping	<1%2	2
Other	<1%2	2
Prison Offenses	<1%2	2
Robbery	<1%2	2
Bribery/Corruption	<1%1	1
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Commercialized Vice	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1

All 472 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	192	180	163	120	154	171	214	247
Firearms	77	104	79	69	69	73	75	73
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	88	64	49	35	53	55	65	50
Immigration	39	46	34	13	21	6	12	17
Sex Abuse	10	12	9	6	12	11	19	18
Child Pornography	16	22	8	5	7	13	15	9
Administration of Justice	6	9	9	5	9	9	5	11
Money Launder	8	12	8	2	7	10	7	9
Tax	9	11	6	7	3	9	6	7
Bribery/Corruption	3	12	4	1	5	7	3	1
Assault	0	7	5	4	3	4	4	6
Robbery	2	2	14	3	6	1	2	2
Murder	3	8	0	0	1	2	1	5
Prison Offenses	7	3	0	1	2	1	3	2
Stalking/Harassing	2	5	0	0	2	3	3	4
Other	1	0	6	0	1	5	1	2
Commercialized Vice	3	3	1	2	2	2	0	1
Arson	2	2	0	1	2	1	2	2
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	0	4	2	2	1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	3	3	1	0	2	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	0
Individual Rights	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	1
Antitrust	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0
Drug Possession	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	2
National Defense	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	477	511	408	282	366	392	445	472

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%361	361
Not a U.S. citizen	23%109	109
Citizenship not known	<1%2	2

17 of the 472 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	53%251	251
White+MENA, 4 placed by CrimeDB	25%118	118
Black, 4 placed by CrimeDB	14%67	67
Asian+NHPI, 7 placed by CrimeDB	7%32	32
AIAN	<1%1	1
Race unknown	1%3	3

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 472 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 23 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	48%226	226
II	13%63	63
III	13%59	59
IV	6%29	29
V	5%24	24
VI	15%70	70
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 472 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	33%154	154
Above the range	2%9	9
Below the range, government-sponsored	35%164	164
Below the range, not government-sponsored	31%144	144
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 472 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	356	224	132	62.9%	37.1%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	308	182	126	59.1%	40.9%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	278	153	125	55.0%	45.0%

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 Eastern District of California, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	773	407	347	19	216
FY2003	940	428	502	10	340
FY2004	932	503	415	14	227
FY2005	913	498	408	7	219
FY2006	1,043	632	406	5	222
FY2007	946	586	356	4	152
FY2008	892	507	377	8	213
FY2009	1,036	477	553	6	319
FY2010	1,005	449	547	9	346
FY2011	1,046	451	590	5	374
FY2012	1,035	468	562	5	329
FY2013	994	504	479	11	290
FY2014	912	514	393	5	157
FY2015	734	477	243	14	104
FY2016	672	469	194	9	42
FY2017	521	351	167	3	36
FY2018	477	324	153	0	39
FY2019	511	383	128	0	46
FY2020	408	278	123	7	34
FY2021	282	199	83	0	13
FY2022	366	263	102	1	21
FY2023	392	316	70	6	6
FY2024	445	350	93	2	12
FY2025	472	361	109	2	17

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 Eastern District of California, 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	773	605	27	55	74	7	5	82%	1
FY2003*	940	792	24	46	67	8	3	87%	2
FY2004	932	792	20	50	66	3	1	87%	5
FY2005*	913	762	31	47	67	6	0	87%	0
FY2006	1,043	853	36	37	110	7	0	85%	0
FY2007	946	792	26	47	78	3	0	86%	5
FY2008*	892	744	31	42	71	3	1	87%	1
FY2009	1,036	929	24	38	45	0	0	92%	2
FY2010*	1,005	870	24	36	71	4	0	89%	3
FY2011	1,046	914	33	35	63	1	0	91%	4
FY2012	1,035	932	25	34	44	0	0	92%	0
FY2013	994	911	22	23	37	1	0	94%	0
FY2014	912	827	29	20	36	0	0	94%	1
FY2015	734	664	25	12	30	3	0	94%	1
FY2016	672	587	32	15	38	0	0	92%	1
FY2017	521	435	20	17	49	0	0	87%	0
FY2018	477	424	15	6	32	0	0	92%	1
FY2019*	511	448	17	15	31	0	0	91%	1
FY2020	408	347	10	3	42	6	0	88%	0
FY2021	282	258	7	4	12	1	0	94%	0
FY2022	366	322	24	4	14	2	0	95%	0
FY2023	392	352	16	4	20	0	0	94%	1
FY2024*	445	405	16	4	19	1	0	95%	4
FY2025	472	451	1	4	15	1	0	96%	5

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 Eastern District of California, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	38	24	768	45	24	632
FY2003*	40	24	937	46	24	814
FY2004	48	30	931	55	37	812
FY2005*	45	30	913	51	37	791
FY2006	47	33	1,043	55	37	888
FY2007	55	37	946	63	46	817
FY2008*	50	37	891	57	42	774
FY2009	51	41	1,036	55	46	949
FY2010*	52	37	1,005	58	46	891
FY2011	49	36	1,045	54	37	932
FY2012	47	30	1,035	51	37	945
FY2013	49	37	994	53	37	923
FY2014	58	37	912	63	42	840
FY2015	55	37	734	60	46	671
FY2016	55	41	672	62	48	593
FY2017	53	36	521	64	50	430
FY2018	58	37	477	62	45	439
FY2019*	63	46	511	69	49	465
FY2020	54	36	408	61	41	357
FY2021	57	42	282	60	46	265
FY2022	70	52	366	73	57	346
FY2023	68	51	392	72	57	368
FY2024*	72	48	445	76	51	421
FY2025	82	60	472	86	60	452

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 Eastern District of California by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Immigration	216	340	227	219	222	152	213	319
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	139	167	209	177	252	263	233	259
Fraud	150	141	147	162	187	143	109	88
Firearms	34	42	78	67	84	75	74	84
Drugs - Communication Facilities	40	48	37	32	47	48	29	67
Pornography/Prostitution	18	9	27	49	64	60	53	56
Larceny	39	71	55	51	31	33	29	21
Administration of Justice	23	30	32	34	33	39	27	29
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	26	12	15	13	17	20	25	34
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	6	18	11	26	21	16	12
Robbery	19	12	22	13	10	9	7	11
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	19	13	3	18	16	12	12
Embezzlement	18	9	13	16	6	0	4	4
Assault	4	6	10	7	8	6	17	11
Tax Offenses	7	7	7	14	9	13	6	6
Money Laundering	11	8	10	13	3	9	6	4
Prison Offenses	2	2	3	14	9	20	9	5
Racketeering/Extortion	4	0	0	3	6	5	0	2
Sexual Abuse	2	0	3	1	2	5	4	3
Bribery	3	2	1	7	0	0	3	3
Arson	1	2	2	2	4	0	1	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	3	0	3	0	1	2	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	1	0	0	1	3	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	0	3	0	3	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Offense type not known	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	773	940	932	913	1,043	946	892	1,036

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 Eastern District of California by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	221	277	265	310	329	246	233	188
Immigration	346	374	329	290	157	104	42	36
Fraud	78	97	138	119	129	125	141	89
Firearms	81	70	77	98	86	86	96	57
Child Pornography	44	45	57	45	52	46	27	28
Drugs - Communication Facilities	47	18	30	32	33	15	8	13
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	36	24	33	22	27	20	6	14
Administration of Justice	34	27	16	20	8	18	25	24
Larceny	28	34	36	15	12	10	13	3
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	11	14	6	13	6	11	11
Money Laundering	5	4	6	10	21	9	8	14
Tax Offenses	18	13	10	3	3	5	9	6
Sexual Abuse	9	8	1	4	8	10	6	8
Assault	4	5	5	3	8	5	9	9
Robbery	9	10	6	7	1	2	6	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	17	9	0	1	0	7	4	2
Racketeering/Extortion	6	1	0	1	5	10	8	7
Prison Offenses	2	5	5	2	9	4	1	1
Embezzlement	4	6	3	2	0	1	3	2
Bribery	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	3
Arson	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	3	0	0	2	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	3	0	0	2	0	1	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1
Gambling/Lottery	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0
Auto Theft	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
All offenses	1,005	1,046	1,035	994	912	734	672	521

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 Eastern District of California by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	247	52%
Firearms	73	16%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	50	11%
Sex Abuse	18	4%
Immigration	17	4%
Administration of Justice	11	2%
Child Pornography	9	2%
Money Launder	9	2%
Tax	7	2%
Assault	6	1%
Murder	5	1%
Stalking/Harassing	4	1%
Arson	2	<1%
Environmental	2	<1%
Kidnapping	2	<1%
Other	2	<1%
Prison Offenses	2	<1%
Robbery	2	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	1	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Commercialized Vice	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%

All 472 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 Eastern District of California by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	251	8	53%
White+MENA	118	4	25%
Black	67	4	14%
Asian+NHPI	32	7	7%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	3	0	1%

All 472 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 23 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 Eastern District of California by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	226	48%
II	63	13%
III	59	13%
IV	29	6%
V	24	5%
VI	70	15%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 472 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 Eastern District of California against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	154	33%
Above the range	9	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	164	35%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	144	31%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 472 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 Eastern District of California, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,071	660	411	61.6%	38.4%
FY2007	986	621	365	63.0%	37.0%
FY2008	1,182	837	345	70.8%	29.2%
FY2009	982	679	303	69.1%	30.9%
FY2010	1,090	791	299	72.6%	27.4%
FY2011	1,002	692	310	69.1%	30.9%
FY2012	1,010	672	338	66.5%	33.5%
FY2013	976	693	283	71.0%	29.0%
FY2014	672	464	208	69.0%	31.0%
FY2015	577	392	185	67.9%	32.1%
FY2016	456	263	193	57.7%	42.3%
FY2017	500	312	188	62.4%	37.6%
FY2018	578	373	205	64.5%	35.5%
FY2019	522	345	177	66.1%	33.9%
FY2020	360	224	136	62.2%	37.8%
FY2021	437	249	188	57.0%	43.0%
FY2022	340	192	148	56.5%	43.5%
FY2023	347	241	106	69.5%	30.5%
FY2024	321	180	141	56.1%	43.9%
FY2025	356	224	132	62.9%	37.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	890	479	411	53.8%	46.2%
FY2007	842	477	365	56.7%	43.3%
FY2008	919	574	345	62.5%	37.5%
FY2009	649	346	303	53.3%	46.7%
FY2010	730	432	298	59.2%	40.8%
FY2011	706	396	310	56.1%	43.9%
FY2012	772	434	338	56.2%	43.8%
FY2013	727	444	283	61.1%	38.9%
FY2014	554	346	208	62.5%	37.5%
FY2015	497	312	185	62.8%	37.2%
FY2016	434	243	191	56.0%	44.0%
FY2017	473	285	188	60.3%	39.7%
FY2018	520	319	201	61.3%	38.7%
FY2019	487	313	174	64.3%	35.7%
FY2020	340	205	135	60.3%	39.7%
FY2021	421	235	186	55.8%	44.2%
FY2022	334	188	146	56.3%	43.7%
FY2023	339	233	106	68.7%	31.3%
FY2024	316	179	137	56.6%	43.4%
FY2025	308	182	126	59.1%	40.9%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	304	168	136	55.3%	44.7%
FY2023	300	199	101	66.3%	33.7%
FY2024	293	161	132	54.9%	45.1%
FY2025	278	153	125	55.0%	45.0%

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