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Data-Driven Defense Intelligence

You’re about to stand in front of someone who will decide your future. The prosecutor has appeared before this judge dozens of times. Your attorney may have too. You’re the only one in that room who doesn’t know what to expect.

Questions To Ask About Your Judge Before Your First Hearing

Every judge has patterns in the public record. The prosecutor reads them. Now you can ask about them too.

This is not a prediction. This is a list of questions your attorney should be able to answer about your judge.

$197

Less than one hour of your attorney’s time — for data your attorney may not have.

Based on verified court records with source URLs

Stage 1 stats brief in ~60 seconds. Full tactical dossier in ~30 min — emailed when ready.

What You Get

  • Questions to ask about your judge’s background — appointing president, ABA review, law school
  • Questions to ask about your judge’s documented sentencing patterns (data: 819,248 federal cases)
  • Questions to ask about defendant demographic sentencing analysis
  • Questions to ask about prosecutor pairing — how your judge has ruled on your prosecutor’s motions
  • Questions to ask about bench vs jury trial divergence in your judge’s record
  • Direct judge quotes from verified court opinions, framed as conversation prompts for your attorney
  • Questions to ask about appellate trends in your circuit
  • Every data point linked to its source URL so you can verify it yourself

Sample Brief Preview

Sample sentencing data — Judge Sarah Martinez, DUI cases
MetricValueSource
Median sentence (DUI 1st)12 months probationCourtListener
Deviation from county median+1.3σ (above)CourtListener
Bench trial acquittal rateSee data; bring to your attorneyCourtListener
Motion grant rate (suppression)ModerateCourtListener

Verified Data You Can Check Yourself

Every data point has a source URL. Click any row to verify against CourtListener.

Sentencing analysis methodology informed by the Sentencing Commission’s published guidelines data and CourtListener’s open court records API. Every metric is computed from verified judicial records — not estimated, not fabricated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions worth researching about your judge — drawn from judge background (appointing president, ABA Standing Committee evaluation, law school), sentencing patterns across 819,248 federal cases, demographic sentencing analysis, prosecutor pairing data, bench vs jury divergence, direct quotes from court opinions, and appellate trends. Every data point includes a source URL you can verify independently.

Federal court data from JUSTFAIR (QSIDE Institute) covering 819,248 sentencing records. State court data from CourtListener. We do not generate or estimate data — every metric traces to a specific court record.

No. This is legal INFORMATION — verified court data compiled into questions worth asking your attorney. Decisions about how to use this information stay with you and your attorney.

In two stages. Stage 1: a stats brief with sentencing patterns, prosecutor pairing data, and judge background is delivered to your inbox within 60 seconds of purchase. Stage 2: a full tactical dossier — written analysis, motion angles, and sourced quotes — follows in approximately 30 minutes. We email you when Stage 2 is ready.

If we don’t have sufficient data for your specific judge, you’ll see that before checkout — we won’t charge you for data we don’t have. You can join our waitlist and we’ll notify you when coverage is available.

Good defense attorneys welcome prepared clients. This data helps you have a more productive conversation with your attorney — it’s the same type of information attorneys research themselves. Showing up informed is a sign of engagement, not distrust.

Sentencing Pattern Pages

Free aggregate pages for the 24 highest-volume judges in the federal corpus. Each page summarizes USSC FY14-23 sentencing distribution and docket caseload — directional context to help evaluate whether the full $197 brief adds value.

Coverage extends beyond this list. Browse the full free judge sentencing-pattern index for every judge with sufficient indexed data.

Walk In Prepared, Not Predicting

Most defendants walk into court hoping their attorney has read the judge’s record. Defendants who prepare walk in with the questions. The prosecutor has already read it. Now you can ask about it too.

This brief provides legal INFORMATION — not legal ADVICE.

Questions before you buy? help@imnotanattorney.com — a defendant-side researcher replies, not a bot.

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