Judge Susan Webber Wright
September 2012: Median Prison Sentence
District Court - Arkansas East
Referring Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Lead Charge: 21 USC 846 - Attempt and conspiracy
District Court - Arkansas East
Referring Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Lead Charge: 21 USC 846 - Attempt and conspiracy
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge Susan Webber Wright in the Eastern District of Arkansas, the median prison sentence was 23.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Drug Enforcement Administration with a lead charge of "21 USC 846 - Attempt and conspiracy". This number is 23.3% lower than the median prison sentence for all the Eastern District of Arkansas matters disposed in the same period. At the same time, the judge's median prison sentence was 61.7% lower than the typical 2012 sentence for the nation as a whole. During the current fiscal year, Judge Susan Webber Wright has sentenced 15 defendants compared with 7 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year. Judge Susan Webber Wright's service terminated on December 1, 1990, due to statutory reassignment of judg.
Focusing on a five-year period, the median prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Wright was 72.0 months. This was 50.0% higher than the 48.0 months typical in Arkansas East and 20.0% higher than the 60.0 months median prison sentence for the nation. Judge Susan Webber Wright sentenced 35 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 Wright'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 6 other judges in the Eastern District of Arkansas with information on convictions during that period. Median prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 28.5 months to 70.0 months, putting Judge Wright's median prison sentence of 72.0 months at the higher end of the range. The median prison sentence for the whole Eastern District of Arkansas during that time was 48.0 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1948 in Texarkana, AR
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on September 21, 1989, to a seat vacated by Elsijane Trimble Roy; Confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 1990, and received commission on January 24, 1990. Service terminated on December 1, 1990, due to statutory reassignment of judges.
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on September 21, 1989, to a seat vacated by Elsijane Trimble Roy; Confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 1990, and received commission on January 24, 1990. Served as chief judge, 1998-2005.
Education:
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, B.A., 1970
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, M.P.A., 1973
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, J.D., 1975
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. J. Smith Henley, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1975-1976
Faculty, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 1976-1990
Assistant professor and assistant dean, 1976-1978
Associate professor, 1980-1983
Professor, 1983-1990
Research assistant, Arkansas Constitutional Convention, 1979
Visiting assistant professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, 1980
Visiting associate professor, Ohio State University College of Law, 1981
Visiting associate professor, Louisiana State University Law Center, 1982-1983
Program Areas of Cases Handled
Cases disposed of by Judge Susan Webber Wright for the past five years fell into a number of broad categories. The lead category for these cases was Narcotics/Drugs accounting for 97.1% of cases.
| Program Area | Judge | District | US | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narcotics/Drugs | 97.1% | 98.7% | 99.0% | More |
| Weapons | 2.9% | 1.3% | 0.5% |
Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)
Number of Defendants in Judge Susan Webber Wright's Cases
| Case | Def. | Sentence (Months) | Sentencing Date | Program Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 121.00 | 09/26/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 2 | 1 | 72.00 | 09/21/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 3 | 1 | 60.00 | 09/13/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 1 | 3 | 12.03 | 09/12/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 1 | 4 | 0.00 | 08/23/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 1 | 5 | 21.00 | 07/02/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 3 | 2 | 0.01 | 07/02/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 1 | 2 | 21.00 | 05/01/12 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 4 | 3 | 135.00 | 04/03/12 | Drugs-Drug Trafficking | Details |
| 4 | 1 | 23.00 | 03/08/12 | Drugs-Drug Trafficking | Details |
| 4 | 2 | 30.00 | 02/15/12 | Drugs-Drug Trafficking | Details |
| 4 | 4 | 0.00 | 01/31/12 | Drugs-Drug Trafficking | Details |
| 5 | 2 | 120.00 | 12/14/11 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 5 | 1 | 60.00 | 10/21/11 | Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force | Details |
| 6 | 1 | 0.00 | 10/18/11 | Drugs-Drug Trafficking | Details |
Table 3: Individual Cases and Defendants Disposed of in Current Fiscal Year