Judge Mary A. McLaughlin
September 2012: Average Prison Sentence

District Court - Pennsylvania East
Referring Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Lead Charge: 21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A

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Latest Fiscal Year - - -
Previous Fiscal Year 74.3 - -
Past 5 Years 76.9 5.7% 5.2%
Percent not reported where cases too few to provide
meaningful comparison.
Table 1: Current and 5 Year
Average Prison Sentence Comparison

Judge Mary A. McLaughlin didn't dispose of any cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in the current fiscal year (2012) and disposed of 4 cases in the previous year.

Over the last five years, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge McLaughlin was 76.9 months. This was 5.7% higher than the 72.7 months typical in Pennsylvania East and 5.2% higher than the 73.0 months average prison sentence for the nation. Judge Mary A. McLaughlin sentenced 14 defendants during the past five years.

(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)

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Figure 1: Five Year Comparison of Average Prison Sentence
in Months

Figure 1 compares Judge McLaughlin's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.

During the last five years there were 26 other judges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with information on convictions during that period. Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 15.6 months to 180.0 months, putting Judge McLaughlin's average prison sentence of 76.9 months at the higher end of the range. The average prison sentence for the whole Eastern District of Pennsylvania during that time was 72.7 months.

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Figure 2: Detailed Comparison among Judges for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Professional Biography

Born 1946 in Philadelphia, PA

Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 13, 2000, to a seat vacated by Marvin Katz; Confirmed by the Senate on May 24, 2000, and received commission on May 31, 2000.

Education:
Gwynedd-Mercy College, B.A., 1968
Bryn Mawr College, M.A., 1969
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1976

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Stanley Brotman, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1976-1977
Private practice, 1977-1980
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1980-1984
Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1984-1986
Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986-2000
Adjunct professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1988
Adjunct professor, Rutgers University School of Law, 1989
Chief counsel, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1995

Program Areas of Cases Handled

Cases disposed of by Judge Mary A. McLaughlin for the past five years fell into a number of broad categories. The lead category for these cases was Narcotics/Drugs accounting for 85.7% of cases.

Other major categories with substantial numbers of cases that were disposed by Judge Mary A. McLaughlin over the past five years were: Weapons (14.3%).

Program Area Judge District US  
Narcotics/Drugs 85.7% 93.8% 98.5% More
Weapons 14.3% 4.7% 0.6%  

Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)

Number of Defendants in Judge Mary A. McLaughlin's Cases

Judge Mary A. McLaughlin didn't handle any convictions of this type in the current fiscal year 2012.