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Federal Bench — District of Maryland

James Bredar

Aggregate sentencing patterns and caseload data for James Bredar compiled from verified federal court records. Statistical frequencies only — never a prediction about a specific case or defendant.

Source: USSC FY14-23 × CourtListener federal dockets — generated May 6, 2026

Name-match note: Records were linked across USSC and CourtListener with a name-similarity score of 0.59. Below 0.80 the link is weaker — verify the cl_person_id matches the judge before relying on this profile.

Sentencing & Caseload Snapshot

USSC Sentences

632

FY14-23 indexed

Median Sentence

60.0 mo

across indexed cases

Total Dockets

3,570

indexed in corpus

Criminal Fraction

6.3%

of indexed dockets

Aggregate frequencies from public USSC sentencing datafiles and CourtListener docket records. Not a prediction about any specific case.

Sentencing Distribution

Distribution metrics from 632 indexed USSC sentences. Departure rates indicate how often sentences fell outside the calculated guideline range.

Sentencing distribution from USSC FY14-23 datafiles
MetricValue
Median sentence60.0 mo
Mean sentence171.3 mo
Interquartile range (P25 — P75)24.0 mo 120.0 mo
Downward departure rate63.0%
Upward departure rate5.0%
Substantial-assistance rate
Government-sponsored below-range rate

Source: USSC FY14-23 individual offender datafiles.

Offense Mix

Top offense categories among indexed sentences. A judge's offense mix reflects the docket they were assigned, not their personal selection.

  • drug trafficking257 (40.7%)
  • extortion racketeering82 (13.0%)
  • gambling68 (10.8%)
  • murder48 (7.6%)
  • prison33 (5.2%)
  • burglary12 (1.9%)
  • obscenity9 (1.4%)
  • stalking harassing7 (1.1%)

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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.