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Fiscal Year 1994 1Li i1 Aomy9 UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS STATISTICAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 1994 iIAo$eaEITuR The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ord mary party to controver3y but of sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all and whose interest therefore in criminal prosecution is not that it shall win case but that justice shall be done As such he is in peculiar and very definite sense the sePvant of the law the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed he should do so But while he may strike hard blows he is not at liberty to strike foul ones It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods it is calculated to produce wrongful conviction as to about use every legitimate means to bring just one Quoted from the Statement of Mr Justice Sutherland in Berger United States 295 U.S 88 1935 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICES PERSONNEL ATTORNEYS OFFICES II CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS BY ThE UNITED STATES 10 District of Columbia Superior Court Proceedings 15 PRIORITY CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AREAS 15 Violent Crime 16 Firearms Prosecutions 17 Violent Street Gangs 18 Violent Indian Crime 18 Narcotics Prosecutions 20 Organized Crime 21 White Collar Crime 21 Financial Institution Fraud 22 Official Corruption 23 Espionage 24 Health Care Fraud 25 Environmental Crime 26 Computer Crime 27 Other White Collar Crime 27 Civil Rights Prosecutions FORFEITURE LITIGATION 29 111 UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS ASSET OFFICES 32 IV CIVIL LITiGATION IN THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS 38 Defensive Civil Litigation 39 Affirmative Civil Litigation 40 Federal Debt Collection 41 Civil Debt Collection Cases 42 Bankruptcy and Foreclosure 42 Criminal Debt Collection Cases 43 Private Counsel Debt Collection Pilot Program 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE NUMBER Criminal Cases and Defendants in U.S District Court and Magistrate Court 45 of Criminal Disposition Cases and Defendants in U.S District Court 46 2A of Criminal Cases and Defendants Disposition in U.S Magistrate Court 47 Criminal Cases and Defendants Filed and Disposed of in U.S District Court 48 Civil Cases and Dispositions 49 Civil Cases Matters and Dispositions by Cause of Action 50 Civil Cases and Matters Dispositions by Referring Agency Criminal and Civil Appeals Filed and Closed 52 Criminal and Civil Cases Filed in Court 53 Criminal and Civil Cases Disposed of in Court 54 10 Criminal and Civil Cases Pending in Court 55 11 Criminal and Civil Matters and Opened Proceedings Before Grand Jury 56 USAO Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1994 Exclusive of Asset Forfeiture 12A Criminal Debts Owed to the United States 57 12B Criminal Debts Owed to Third Parties 58 12C Criminal Total 59 12D Bankruptcies and Foreclosures 60 12E Other Civil Debts 61 12F Civil Total 62 12G Grand Total 63 12H Criminal Debts in Suspense 64 13 United States Attorneys Court-Related Work Hours 65 14 Criminal Cases Pending Aged by Date Received 66 15 Criminal Matters Pending Aged by Date Received 67 16 Civil Cases Pending Aged by Date Received 68 17 Civil Matters Date Pending Aged by Received 69 Ut TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE NUMBER 70 Immediate and Later Declinations by Reason for Declination 18 Criminal Matters Declined and Later Declinations Investigative Agency 19 Criminal Matters Declined Immediate by 71 and Reason for Declination 72 of Administrative Forfeitures 20 Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture Actions Exclusive iv INDEX TO CHARTS Chart Page Full Time Equivalent Personnel in United States Attorneys Offices Court Hours United States Attorneys Offices Criminal Matters Opened By United States Attorney Offices before Proceedings Grand Jury conducted by United States Attorneys Offices Criminal Cases Filed by United States Attorneys Offices Criminal Cases Terminated by United States Attorneys Offices United States Offices Criminal Defendants Attorneys Terminated by Trial United States Attorneys Criminal Cases Pending in Court of United States Age Attorneys Criminal Cases Pending in Court 10 Criminal Filed or the Appeals by Against United States in United States Attorneys Offices 11 Criminal Cases Filed United States by Attorneys by Program Category 12 12 Criminal Cases in United Pending States Attorneys Offices by Program Category 13 13 Criminal Cases in United States Pending Attorneys Offices by District 14 14 Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture Obtained Judgments by United States Attorneys Offices 29 15 Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture Collections by United States Attorneys Offices 30 16 Civil Matters Opened By United States Attorneys Offices 32 17 Civil Cases Filed or Responded to by United States Attorneys Offices 33 18 Civil Cases Terminated by United States Attorneys Offices 33 19 Civil Cases Terminated Trial by in United States Attorneys Offices 34 20 States Civil United Attorneys Cases Pending in Court 34 21 of United States Age Attorneys Civil Cases Pending in Court 35 22 Civil Filed or the United States in Appeals by Against United States Attorneys Offices 35 23 Civil Cases in United States Pending Attorneys Offices by Cause of Action 36 24 Civil Cases in United States Pending Attorneys Offices by District 37 25 Debt Collections United States Offices by Attorneys Exclusive of Asset Forfeiture 41 INTRODUCTION and direction the General are The United States Attorneys under the supervision of Attorney and those who violate our Nations laws and for responsible for the investigation prosecution of the interests the United States its departments and agencies through asserting and defending the of The United States appointed to serve in the 94 federal judicial conduct of civil litigation Attorneys with out these and litigation districts throughout the countly are chatged canying prosecution in each district directs and within their districts The United States Attorney responsibilities respective States and personnel located in the districts supervises the work of Assistant United Attorneys support the as in branch offices. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1994 headquarters office and needed staffed wide consisted the 94 offices and an additional United States Attorney systen ization of headquarters 109 staffed branch offices 95 the criminal The United States Attorneys offices conduct approximately percent of Justice the civil handled by the Department of As part of prosecutioizs and 75 percent of litigation the United States to Washington information their prosecution and litigation efforts Attorneys report handle centralized database containing on the criminal and civil matters and cases they computer the Executive United States Attorneys The United States this information is maintained by Office for the matter and case-related reported Attorneys Statistical Report suninarizes and presents information by the United States Attorneys executive assistance The Executive Office for United States Attorneys provides oversight general the United States and serves as liaison between the United and direction to the offices of Attorneys and One its responsibilities on States Attorneys and other Department components federal agencies of is the this annual report behalf of the United States Attorneys publication of statistical the matters and cases handled by The charts and tables below reflect summaty of cannot and do not the the United States Attorneys offices These charts and tables however reflect the the criminal and civil litigation conducted by offices quality and complexity of prosecutions and in realistic of the time effort Additionally the statistics are woefully inadequate presenting picture Some cases handled during the are skill required to prosecute and litigate the cases examples of year the of included in the text to illustrate caseload composition and more importantly successful efforts work in the United States offices Finally the significant the many men and women who Attorneys States Assistant United States and other liaison work performed by the United Attorneys Attorneys the and local law entities the victims of crime members of the staff with federal state enforcement be Since the role the United local community schools and other organizations cannot quantified of 295 88 the is shall be Berger United Stat US 1935 States Attorneys to see that justice done United States cannot be tabulated true and comprehensive accomplishments of the Attorneys statistically UNITED STATES AmnORNEYS OFFICESPERSONNEL law enforcement officers within The 93 United States Attorneys serve as the chief federal the confirmed the Senate and report their respective districts They are appointed by President by the General Each United States Attorney is to the Attorney General through Deputy Attorney within his or her district Each United States responsible for establishing law enforcement priorities the United States in civil proceedings in the Attorney is also the chief litigator representing judicial role of liaison with federal state district The United States Attorneys too carry out the important on such as the and local law enforcement officers and members of the community programs demand reduction and Weed and Seed Attorney Generals Anti-Violent Crime Initiative drug in size from six allocated Assistant United States The United States Attorneys offices vary of Columbia In the District of Columbia the Attorney positions in Guam to 296 in the District for the of local crimes in D.C United States Attorneys office also bears responsibility prosecution nationwide the United States offices were allocated
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