Judge Michael W. Mosman
September 2012: Median Prison Sentence
District Court - Oregon
Referring Agency: Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Program Area: Weapons
District Court - Oregon
Referring Agency: Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Program Area: Weapons
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge Michael W. Mosman in the District of Oregon, the median prison sentence was 27.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms falling under the broad category of "Weapons". This number is 12.5% higher than the median prison sentence for all the District of Oregon matters disposed in the same period. At the same time, the judge's median prison sentence was 41.3% lower than the typical 2012 sentence for the nation as a whole. During the current fiscal year, Judge Michael W. Mosman has sentenced 14 defendants compared with 3 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.
Focusing on a five-year period, the median prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Mosman was 36.0 months. This was 12.2% lower than the 41.0 months typical in Oregon and 25.0% lower than the 48.0 months median prison sentence for the nation. Judge Michael W. Mosman sentenced 43 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.)
Figure 1 compares Judge Mosman'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 10 other judges in the District of Oregon with information on convictions during that period. Median prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 18.0 months to 150.0 months, putting Judge Mosman's median prison sentence of 36.0 months at the higher end of the range. The median prison sentence for the whole District of Oregon during that time was 41.0 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1956 in Eugene, OR
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Oregon
Nominated by George W. Bush on May 8, 2003, to a seat vacated by Robert E. Jones; Confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 2003, and received commission on September 26, 2003.
Education:
Ricks College, A.B., 1979
Utah State University, B.S., 1981
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, J.D., 1984
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Malcolm Wilkey, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1984-1985
Private practice, 1985
Law clerk, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Supreme Court of the United States, 1985-1986
Private practice, Portland, Oregon, 1986-1988
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Oregon, 1988-2001
U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, 2001-2003
Lead Charges in Cases Handled
The lead charge with the most cases disposed of by Judge Michael W. Mosman for the past five years was "18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts". It accounted for 86.0% of all cases.
Other lead charges with substantial numbers of cases that were disposed by Judge Michael W. Mosman over the past five years were: "18 USC 1951 - Hobbs Act" (7.0%).
| Lead Charge | Judge | District | US | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts | 86.0% | 92.8% | 84.2% | More |
| 18 USC 1951 - Hobbs Act | 7.0% | 1.1% | 1.3% | |
| 18 USC 2 - Aiding and Abetting | 2.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |
| 21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A | 2.3% | 0.4% | 2.4% | |
| 26 USC 5861 - Tax on Making Firearms - Prohibited acts | 2.3% | 2.2% | 2.6% |
Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)
Number of Defendants in Judge Michael W. Mosman's Cases
| Case | Def. | Sentence (Months) | Sentencing Date | Program Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 27.00 | 09/06/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 2 | 1 | 42.00 | 09/05/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 3 | 1 | 78.00 | 08/30/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 4 | 1 | 24.00 | 07/23/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 5 | 1 | 8.00 | 07/20/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 6 | 1 | 57.00 | 06/21/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 4 | 3 | 51.00 | 05/07/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 7 | 1 | 70.00 | 04/30/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 8 | 1 | 85.00 | 04/09/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 9 | 1 | 3.00 | 01/12/12 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 10 | 1 | 27.00 | 11/14/11 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 11 | 1 | 24.00 | 11/14/11 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 4 | 2 | 24.00 | 11/14/11 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
| 12 | 1 | 12.00 | 10/03/11 | Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major | Details |
Table 3: Individual Cases and Defendants Disposed of in Current Fiscal Year