Judge Michael W. Mosman
September 2012: Average Prison Sentence

District Court - Oregon
Referring Agency: Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Lead Charge: 18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts
Program Area: Weapons

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To District		 Compared
To U.S.
Latest Fiscal Year 34.4 -4.9% -49.1%
Previous Fiscal Year 21.3 - -
Past 5 Years 49.8 -19.6% -28.2%
Percent not reported where cases too few to provide
meaningful comparison.
Table 1: Current and 5 Year
Average Prison Sentence Comparison

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 average prison sentence was 34.4 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms with a lead charge of "18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts" falling under the broad category of "Weapons". This number is 4.9% lower than the average prison sentence for all the District of Oregon matters disposed in the same period. At the same time, the judge's average prison sentence was 49.1% lower than the typical 2012 sentence for the nation as a whole. During the current fiscal year, Judge Michael W. Mosman has sentenced 13 defendants compared with 3 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.

Focusing on a five-year period, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Mosman was 49.8 months. This was 19.6% lower than the 61.9 months typical in Oregon and 28.2% lower than the 69.3 months average prison sentence for the nation. Judge Michael W. Mosman sentenced 37 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 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 9 other judges in the District of Oregon with information on convictions during that period. Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 33.4 months to 173.1 months, putting Judge Mosman's average prison sentence of 49.8 months at the lower end of the range. The average prison sentence for the whole District of Oregon during that time was 61.9 months.

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Figure 2: Detailed Comparison among Judges for the District of Oregon

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

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 3.00 01/12/12 Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major Details
9 1 27.00 11/14/11 Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major Details
10 1 24.00 11/14/11 Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major Details
4 2 24.00 11/14/11 Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major Details
11 1 12.00 10/03/11 Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major Details

Table 2: Individual Cases and Defendants Disposed of in Current Fiscal Year