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(24 Jan 2003)
Judging Federal Prosecutors: New data on our TRACFED site (available January 24, 2003)
gives subscribers an online way to examine the performance of individual
assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs) in office from FY 1986 to FY 2002.
A summary report focusing on
wide variations in the percentage of investigative matters that AUSAs
decline to prosecute is also available. With the new Prosecutors
Tool users for the first time ever can quickly determine how selected
AUSAs have exercised their discretionary powers in handling both criminal
and civil matters. Individual case-by-case listings as well as statistics
on counts of referrals handled, percent declined, kinds of cases handled,
etc. Compare the sentences achieved by one prosecutor with the sentences
of all prosecutors in the district or the U.S.
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