> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bodiesburied.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Federal Assault Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-assault-sentences-district-of-connecticut/ - Published: 2026-11-04T11:13:01.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T11:13:01.000Z - Description: In fiscal years 2016 to 2025, 37 people were sentenced for assault in the District of Connecticut, and all 37 received a prison term. The median was 144 months (12 years), compared with 42 months for assault cases in all 94 districts. - Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart - Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal [Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) › [Federal Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–202](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-district-of-connecticut/) › Assault: District of Connecticut **In brief:** In fiscal years 2016 to 2025, 37 people were sentenced for assault in the District of Connecticut, and all 37 received a prison term. The median was 144 months (12 years), compared with 42 months for assault cases in all 94 districts. Updated November 4, 2026 · Sources: U.S. Sentencing Commission and Federal Judicial Center, fiscal years 2016–2025 This post uses the U.S. Sentencing Commission's records of 37 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. Acquittals and dismissals come from a second source, the Federal Judicial Center's records of 753,808 federal defendants whose cases ended in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. It is part of the [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) series, which builds on [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/). How the numbers were built: [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/). ## A Median Term Well Above the National Assault Figure The median prison term was 144 months. A quarter received 180 months or more, and a quarter received 87 months or less. For assault cases in all districts, the median was 42 months. For all offenses in the District of Connecticut, it was 36 months. This district's assault group is small, with 37 people, and the Commission's national group is 7,573 people. Those figures count groups of very different size. Prison terms are the terms imposed, not time served. ## Which Assault Guidelines Applied "Assault" is the U.S. Sentencing Commission's offense type. The most common primary guideline was §2A2.1 (Assault with Intent to Commit Murder), used for 25 people. Next was §2A2.2 (Aggravated Assault) for 11 people, and §2X3.1 (Accessory After the Fact) for 1. Assault cases were 1% of the 3,174 people sentenced in the district. A mandatory minimum applied to 10 people (27%). ## Sentences Above the Guideline Range Sentences were above the guideline range for 14% of people (5). Within the range were 35% (13 people). Below the range at the government's request were 8% (3 people), and below the range without a government request were 43% (16 people). The national figure for sentences within the range was 48%. ## Pleas and the One Trial Of the 37 people, 36 (97%) pleaded guilty and 1 was convicted after a trial. Nationally, 93% pleaded guilty. All guilty pleas (100%) had a written plea agreement. The median prison term after a guilty plea was 138 months. The trial case received 165 months. One person cannot support a comparison between pleas and trials. ## Supervision, Fines, and Criminal History All 37 people (100%) were ordered to serve supervised release after prison, with a median term of 36 months. No fine and no restitution was ordered (0 each). In criminal history, 41% were in the lowest category and 3% in the highest. ## Years With Cases Cases were not spread evenly. The table lists only fiscal years with sentenced people, and it has no row for fiscal years 2018, 2021, or 2023\. Fiscal year 2020 had 11 people, and fiscal year 2024 had 9. From fiscal years 2016 to 2019, 5 people were sentenced. From fiscal years 2020 to 2025, 32 people were sentenced. The yearly groups are too small to show a trend. | Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty | | ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- | | 2016 | 1 | 66 months | 1 of 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 36 months | 1 of 1 | | 2019 | 3 | 78 months | 3 of 3 | | 2020 | 11 | 144 months | 100% | | 2022 | 7 | 190 months | 7 of 7 | | 2024 | 9 | 125 months | 9 of 9 | | 2025 | 5 | 180 months | 4 of 5 | ## What the Records Leave Out The data counts only people who were convicted and sentenced. Acquittals and dismissals are not in it. The records do not describe the facts of any case or explain any sentence. They also do not show why 5 people received sentences above the guideline range, or what kind of assault each case involved beyond the guideline label. Each yearly median rests on a small group. ### How We Counted Everyone sentenced in federal court in the District of Connecticut (U.S. Sentencing Commission district label "Connecticut") in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 whose offense type was "Assault" (37). Offense types are the Commission's OFFGUIDE categories. Federal fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30\. No person, judge, or lawyer is identified in any of these records. ### What to Keep in Mind **No parole in federal prison; credit for good conduct.** Federal prison has no parole for crimes committed on or after November 1, 1987\. A federal prisoner can earn up to 54 days of good conduct credit for each year of the sentence the judge imposed, which is about 15%. Some federal prisoners can also earn First Step Act time credits, but many offenses make a person ineligible. The numbers in this post are the sentences judges imposed, not the time people actually served. **Federal supervised release.** Most federal prison sentences are followed by a term of supervised release that the judge sets as part of the sentence. A person who violates it can be sent back to prison. A court-martial cannot sentence anyone to supervision after release. Military parole and mandatory supervised release are decided later by a board, not by the judge at trial. **Who decides the sentence, and under what rules.** Federal judges sentence every federal case. They must calculate the Sentencing Guidelines range, which is advisory, and must impose any mandatory minimum the statute requires unless an exception applies. In courts-martial, the accused could choose sentencing by members until the rules changed. For cases in which every guilty finding is for an offense committed after December 27, 2023, a military judge sentences alone, within sentencing parameters. Courts-martial tried in 2024 and later include both old-rule and new-rule cases, and the data cannot tell them apart. **Time periods.** Federal numbers are by federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30), based on the sentencing date. The military numbers are by trial date. Neither source has the date of the offense, so a change in law shows up in either data set gradually. **How life sentences and "time served" are counted.** In the federal numbers, a life sentence is counted as 470 months, and any other sentence longer than 470 months is counted as just under 470 months. A sentence of "time served" is counted as one day (0.03 months). Averages are affected by these rules; medians much less. **Mandatory minimum sentences.** Many federal statutes on drugs, images of child exploitation, child sex abuse, and firearms carry mandatory minimum prison terms. The UCMJ has mandatory minimums only for a few offenses (a dishonorable discharge or dismissal for rape and sexual assault, and life for premeditated murder). Federal sentences for these offenses are partly set by Congress, not by the judge. ## Related Analysis - [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/) (the background article) - [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) (all federal posts) - [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/) (sources and method) - [Federal Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-district-of-connecticut/) (overview) - [Federal Drug Trafficking Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-trafficking-sentences-district-of-connecticut/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Firearms Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-firearms-sentences-district-of-connecticut/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Fraud, Theft, and Embezzlement Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-fraud-theft-embezzlement-sentences-district-of-connecticut/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Robbery Sentences in the District of Connecticut, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-robbery-sentences-district-of-connecticut/) (same district, other offense type) - [U.S. Sentencing Commission, Individual Offender Datafiles](https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source) - [Federal Judicial Center, Integrated Database (criminal defendants)](https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source) **About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.