2010 Annual Director's Report - Judicial Discipline Reform

2010 Judicial Business 33
proceedings rose 150 percent (up by 1,911 proceedings).
Filings in these two districts mainly stemmed
from mega cases approaching the recovery action
deadline.
The number of adversary proceedings closed
rose 20 percent to 60,173. Pending adversary cases
increased 15 percent to 73,910 as of September 30,
2010.
Data on adversary proceedings by district
appear in Appendix Table F-8.
Criminal Justice Act
A total of 201,096 representations by counsel
took place under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA), a
decrease of 1 percent from 2009. Representations
by the 79 federal public and community defender
organizations (including representations in criminal
matters, appeals, and habeas corpus proceedings)
declined 4 percent to 118,094. Representations by
appointed panel attorneys increased 3 percent to
83,002. The slight reduction in total representations
occurred as cases addressing the retroactive
application of amendments to sentencing guidelines
for crack cocaine convictions, which had
surged in 2008 and were handled mainly by federal
defender organizations (FDOs), continued to fall this
year.
FDO representations decreased in 53 districts,
increased in 36 districts, and remained the same in
1 district. The largest percentage reductions
occurred in the District of Columbia (down 40
percent), Eastern District of North Carolina (down
36 percent), Western District of Texas (down 23
percent), and Southern District of New York (down
15 percent). The largest percentage growth occurred
in the Southern District of Ohio (up 24
percent), Western District of North Carolina (up 16
percent), District of Arizona (up 13 percent), and
Eastern District of Pennsylvania (up 13 percent).
The CJA provides funding for the representation
of individuals with limited financial resources in
federal criminal proceedings. In each district, a plan
exists for providing representation through private
panel attorneys and, where established, federal
public defender or community defender
organizations.
Supplemental Table S-21 provides a summary of
federal defender appointments under the CJA for
the past five years. Appendix Table K-1 presents
information on the representations for each federal
public defender and community defender
organization.
Post-Conviction Supervision
The number of persons under post-conviction
supervision on September 30, 2010, was 127,324, an
increase of 2.5 percent over the 124,183 persons
under supervision one year earlier. From 2006 to
2010, persons under post-conviction supervision
grew by 13,322 or nearly 12 percent. Persons who
were serving terms of supervised release following
a release from a correctional institution rose more
than 3 percent to 102,521 and increased nearly 20
percent over the past five years. The 102,521
Post-Conviction Supervision
as of September 30