Eastern District of Missouri

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 988
Noncitizens, FY2025: 6%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 932
Detained, FY2025: 71.2%

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%897	897
Prison and alternatives	1%12	12
Probation and alternatives	1%5	5
Probation only	7%74	74

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 54 months (mean 72) for the 909 sentenced to prison, 2 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
Firearms	34%337	337
Drug Trafficking	31%304	304
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%141	141
Child Pornography	6%61	61
Robbery	3%26	26
Immigration	3%25	25
Sex Abuse	2%23	23
Money Launder	2%15	15
Murder	1%8	8
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%8	8
Prison Offenses	1%8	8
Stalking/Harassing	1%5	5
Arson	<1%4	4
Tax	<1%4	4
Administration of Justice	<1%3	3
Bribery/Corruption	<1%3	3
Commercialized Vice	<1%3	3
Kidnapping	<1%3	3
Assault	<1%2	2
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%2	2
Environmental	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1

All 988 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Firearms	286	486	432	485	435	380	423	337
Drug Trafficking	209	306	255	358	312	288	300	304
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	150	137	82	65	75	104	88	141
Child Pornography	39	40	19	30	52	45	55	61
Robbery	29	37	35	44	32	28	32	26
Immigration	14	61	36	9	10	3	5	25
Sex Abuse	7	15	10	23	29	13	26	23
Money Launder	27	16	7	4	9	3	9	15
Murder	8	12	3	8	13	14	20	8
Prison Offenses	10	8	11	7	9	21	8	8
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	16	5	3	4	7	5	8
Extortion/Racketeering	22	8	5	2	4	4	2	2
Tax	9	6	2	6	13	3	1	4
Administration of Justice	6	6	3	4	6	8	7	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	8	13	5	0	7	2	2	0
Assault	1	4	5	2	4	7	4	2
Other	7	4	1	7	6	2	2	0
Bribery/Corruption	3	6	0	0	0	4	4	3
Stalking/Harassing	0	2	4	2	0	4	3	5
Individual Rights	0	0	2	1	8	4	3	1
Arson	0	4	1	1	1	3	4	4
Kidnapping	6	0	0	0	0	1	2	3
Commercialized Vice	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	3
Drug Possession	1	2	1	1	0	2	2	0
Environmental	1	3	0	2	1	1	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	847	1,192	925	1,065	1,032	954	1,012	988

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	94%929	929
Not a U.S. citizen	6%59	59
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

25 of the 988 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 2 placed by CrimeDB	60%590	590
White+MENA	32%320	320
Hispanic	7%67	67
Asian+NHPI	1%8	8
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 988 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 2 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	38%378	378
II	17%165	165
III	16%161	161
IV	7%68	68
V	8%79	79
VI	14%137	137

All 988 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	45%444	444
Above the range	4%39	39
Below the range, government-sponsored	31%304	304
Below the range, not government-sponsored	20%201	201

All 988 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	932	664	268	71.2%	28.8%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	873	605	268	69.3%	30.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	822	557	265	67.8%	32.2%

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 Missouri, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	630	577	49	4	39
FY2003	757	676	74	7	38
FY2004	890	830	59	1	43
FY2005	948	873	71	4	37
FY2006	987	925	61	1	31
FY2007	975	873	98	4	42
FY2008	1,015	912	99	4	48
FY2009	1,053	965	84	4	48
FY2010	1,048	967	70	11	31
FY2011	817	733	84	0	37
FY2012	790	709	80	1	22
FY2013	664	606	58	0	29
FY2014	697	657	40	0	19
FY2015	554	504	50	0	17
FY2016	740	689	51	0	4
FY2017	670	623	47	0	10
FY2018	847	801	45	1	14
FY2019	1,192	1,089	102	1	61
FY2020	925	872	53	0	36
FY2021	1,065	1,037	28	0	9
FY2022	1,032	999	33	0	10
FY2023	954	932	22	0	3
FY2024	1,012	985	27	0	5
FY2025	988	929	59	0	25

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 Missouri, 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	630	519	26	32	49	0	4	87%	1
FY2003*	757	627	28	37	54	5	6	87%	3
FY2004	890	743	25	46	72	2	2	86%	2
FY2005*	948	831	30	30	57	0	0	91%	2
FY2006	987	843	29	47	66	0	2	89%	1
FY2007	975	851	31	44	45	3	1	91%	2
FY2008*	1,015	865	30	50	65	5	0	88%	0
FY2009	1,053	903	24	37	87	2	0	88%	5
FY2010*	1,048	872	25	32	110	9	0	86%	3
FY2011	817	698	19	29	70	1	0	88%	0
FY2012	790	650	21	44	75	0	0	85%	3
FY2013	664	549	22	31	62	0	0	86%	6
FY2014	697	593	20	28	56	0	0	88%	1
FY2015	554	452	12	29	61	0	0	84%	0
FY2016	740	622	2	28	88	0	0	84%	0
FY2017	670	578	10	16	66	0	0	88%	0
FY2018	847	724	14	32	77	0	0	87%	1
FY2019*	1,192	1,037	26	24	105	0	0	89%	1
FY2020	925	832	22	9	62	0	0	92%	0
FY2021	1,065	979	17	9	60	0	0	94%	0
FY2022	1,032	932	17	11	72	0	0	92%	3
FY2023	954	871	12	9	62	0	0	93%	1
FY2024*	1,012	947	10	6	47	2	0	95%	5
FY2025	988	897	12	5	74	0	0	92%	2

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 Missouri, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	50	31	626	57	40	545
FY2003*	56	36	751	64	46	653
FY2004	58	38	889	67	48	765
FY2005*	57	40	947	62	46	859
FY2006	62	46	985	69	57	870
FY2007	60	46	974	65	51	880
FY2008*	59	42	1,015	67	51	893
FY2009	60	43	1,053	69	52	916
FY2010*	53	37	1,048	63	48	884
FY2011	52	37	817	60	46	707
FY2012	54	37	790	64	48	660
FY2013	59	36	664	68	46	565
FY2014	55	37	697	63	48	603
FY2015	51	33	554	61	42	461
FY2016	51	36	740	61	46	610
FY2017	52	36	670	60	41	580
FY2018	55	36	847	63	42	738
FY2019*	47	30	1,192	52	36	1,063
FY2020	48	36	925	52	37	854
FY2021	56	40	1,065	60	46	996
FY2022	60	42	1,032	65	48	949
FY2023	59	45	954	64	48	883
FY2024*	72	51	1,012	76	57	957
FY2025	67	48	988	72	54	909

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 Missouri by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	290	353	412	449	457	448	418	473
Firearms	93	141	204	208	187	199	220	211
Fraud	88	113	129	117	137	129	154	131
Immigration	39	38	43	37	31	42	48	48
Pornography/Prostitution	16	14	11	22	30	37	54	67
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	10	15	17	25	23	14	12
Larceny	20	25	5	9	21	10	12	11
Robbery	14	15	9	12	21	8	14	13
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	9	7	10	7	10	11	16	19
Administration of Justice	4	5	3	6	6	11	6	12
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	8	8	9	10	3	3	3
Embezzlement	11	4	3	5	8	9	2	5
Money Laundering	5	1	2	5	3	7	11	9
Prison Offenses	2	2	5	6	8	3	5	5
Tax Offenses	1	4	4	6	7	2	4	8
Racketeering/Extortion	1	2	5	13	2	6	5	1
Assault	4	1	3	5	2	2	5	3
Bribery	3	1	2	0	6	9	2	2
Arson	1	0	4	4	5	1	1	7
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	2	1	4	2	5	4	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	6	3	0	0	5	2	3	4
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	7	3	4	1	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	1	0	1	0	3	7	0
Sexual Abuse	1	0	2	0	0	2	2	2
Auto Theft	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	2
Murder	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Offense type not known	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	630	757	890	948	987	975	1,015	1,053

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 Missouri by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	427	314	308	223	257	171	220	182
Firearms	201	151	134	142	137	128	236	244
Fraud	129	114	123	111	118	81	121	115
Child Pornography	79	61	48	37	43	40	47	38
Immigration	31	37	22	29	19	17	4	10
Forgery/Counterfeiting	24	38	35	23	26	8	3	10
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	19	15	28	18	19	12	22	11
Larceny	15	9	21	18	18	10	21	20
Money Laundering	8	11	7	4	7	27	6	5
Racketeering/Extortion	24	4	10	14	3	4	8	3
Robbery	10	12	2	3	11	17	7	3
Administration of Justice	13	11	11	8	5	3	5	2
Tax Offenses	5	10	7	5	9	9	8	4
Prison Offenses	9	3	3	7	2	5	11	3
Sexual Abuse	6	5	6	2	4	4	4	6
Embezzlement	5	1	3	7	5	7	4	4
Assault	3	4	3	2	5	2	2	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	7	0	7	1	2	1	0	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	10	4	2	0	0	0	2	1
Murder	6	3	2	1	0	0	1	2
Bribery	2	4	3	2	0	0	1	0
Arson	1	2	0	4	1	2	1	0
Auto Theft	4	0	0	1	4	0	1	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	3	1	1	3	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	2	0	1	0	2	2	3
Gambling/Lottery	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	1,048	817	790	664	697	554	740	670

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 Missouri by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	337	34%
Drug Trafficking	304	31%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	141	14%
Child Pornography	61	6%
Robbery	26	3%
Immigration	25	3%
Sex Abuse	23	2%
Money Launder	15	2%
Murder	8	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	8	1%
Prison Offenses	8	1%
Stalking/Harassing	5	1%
Arson	4	<1%
Tax	4	<1%
Administration of Justice	3	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	3	<1%
Commercialized Vice	3	<1%
Kidnapping	3	<1%
Assault	2	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	2	<1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%

All 988 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 Missouri by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	590	2	60%
White+MENA	320	0	32%
Hispanic	67	0	7%
Asian+NHPI	8	0	1%
Race unknown	3	0	<1%

All 988 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 2 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 Missouri by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	378	38%
II	165	17%
III	161	16%
IV	68	7%
V	79	8%
VI	137	14%

All 988 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 Missouri against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	444	45%
Above the range	39	4%
Below the range, government-sponsored	304	31%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	201	20%

All 988 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 Missouri, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,267	702	565	55.4%	44.6%
FY2007	1,274	785	489	61.6%	38.4%
FY2008	1,382	833	549	60.3%	39.7%
FY2009	1,338	739	599	55.2%	44.8%
FY2010	1,224	735	489	60.0%	40.0%
FY2011	1,053	619	434	58.8%	41.2%
FY2012	923	537	386	58.2%	41.8%
FY2013	926	587	339	63.4%	36.6%
FY2014	1,020	644	376	63.1%	36.9%
FY2015	1,058	735	323	69.5%	30.5%
FY2016	1,034	735	299	71.1%	28.9%
FY2017	1,131	763	368	67.5%	32.5%
FY2018	1,498	1,094	404	73.0%	27.0%
FY2019	1,633	1,195	438	73.2%	26.8%
FY2020	1,191	855	336	71.8%	28.2%
FY2021	1,477	1,042	435	70.5%	29.5%
FY2022	1,367	1,014	353	74.2%	25.8%
FY2023	1,473	1,138	335	77.3%	22.7%
FY2024	1,124	753	371	67.0%	33.0%
FY2025	932	664	268	71.2%	28.8%

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 Missouri, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,233	668	565	54.2%	45.8%
FY2007	1,227	738	489	60.1%	39.9%
FY2008	1,326	780	546	58.8%	41.2%
FY2009	1,295	698	597	53.9%	46.1%
FY2010	1,193	704	489	59.0%	41.0%
FY2011	1,015	583	432	57.4%	42.6%
FY2012	888	502	386	56.5%	43.5%
FY2013	874	536	338	61.3%	38.7%
FY2014	966	591	375	61.2%	38.8%
FY2015	1,023	701	322	68.5%	31.5%
FY2016	1,001	704	297	70.3%	29.7%
FY2017	1,098	730	368	66.5%	33.5%
FY2018	1,466	1,062	404	72.4%	27.6%
FY2019	1,588	1,150	438	72.4%	27.6%
FY2020	1,163	828	335	71.2%	28.8%
FY2021	1,452	1,018	434	70.1%	29.9%
FY2022	1,315	964	351	73.3%	26.7%
FY2023	1,463	1,128	335	77.1%	22.9%
FY2024	1,113	744	369	66.8%	33.2%
FY2025	873	605	268	69.3%	30.7%

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 Missouri, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	1,352	999	353	73.9%	26.1%
FY2023	1,452	1,119	333	77.1%	22.9%
FY2024	1,093	725	368	66.3%	33.7%
FY2025	822	557	265	67.8%	32.2%

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