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# Federal Obscenity and Other Sex Offense Sentences in the District of Nevada, FY2016–2025
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-obscenity-other-sex-offenses-sentences-district-of-nevada/
- Published: 2026-11-04T11:08:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T11:08:50.000Z
- Description: 21 people in the District of Nevada were sentenced in the Commission's "Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses" category in fiscal years 2016 to 2025. 19 of them (90%) received a prison term, with a median of 18 months, which is the same as the 18 months for this category across all 94 districts.
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal

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**In brief:** 21 people in the District of Nevada were sentenced in the Commission's "Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses" category in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. 19 of them (90%) received a prison term, with a median of 18 months, which is the same as the 18 months for this category across 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 21 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 Category Defined Mostly by One Guideline

The Commission assigns each sentenced person an offense type by the primary guideline. For "Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses" in the District of Nevada, 20 of the 21 people had §2A3.5 (Failure to Register as a Sex Offender) as the primary guideline.

The category label therefore does not describe the typical case in this district. The records give no case details, so they say nothing further about the conduct behind these sentences.

These cases were less than 1% of the 3,640 people sentenced in the District of Nevada in fiscal years 2016 to 2025.

## Prison Terms

19 of the 21 people (90%) received a prison term, and 1 (5%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement. Across all districts, 95% of people in this category were sent to prison.

Among those sent to prison, the median prison term was 18 months. A quarter received 30 months or more, and a quarter received 12.4 months or less. For all offenses in the District of Nevada, the median was 33 months, which is higher than the median for this category. These are terms imposed, not time served.

## Supervised Release After Prison

19 people (90%) were ordered to serve supervised release after prison. The median term was 60 months, and 2 people (10%) received supervised release for life.

A fine was ordered for 1 person (5%), and restitution for 0 (0%).

## Pleas and the Guideline Range

All 21 people (100%) pleaded guilty, and none was convicted after a trial. Guilty pleas were 99% for this category in all districts and 96% for all offenses in this district. Of the guilty pleas, 81% had a written plea agreement and 19% were straight pleas.

Of the 21 people with sentence-position information, 43% (9) were sentenced within the guideline range. Below the range at the government's request: 33% (7). Below the range without a government request: 19% (4). Above the range: 5% (1).

Sentences within the range were 54% for this category in all districts and 33% for all offenses in this district. A mandatory minimum applied to 0 of the 21 people.

## Criminal History

By criminal history category, 0% were in the lowest category I and 25% were in the highest (VI). Court-martial records have no criminal history field, so the military data cannot be compared on this measure.

## Yearly Counts Are Very Small

8 people were sentenced in fiscal years 2016 to 2019, and 13 in fiscal years 2020 to 2025\. A fiscal year begins October 1 and ends at the close of September. No year had more than 4 people, and several had 1, so the yearly medians in the table do not support a trend.

| Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- |
| 2016        | 1                | 9.8 months    | 1 of 1         |
| 2017        | 2                | 29.6 months   | 2 of 2         |
| 2018        | 3                | 30 months     | 3 of 3         |
| 2019        | 2                | 25.5 months   | 2 of 2         |
| 2020        | 2                | 8.5 months    | 2 of 2         |
| 2021        | 2                | 9.1 months    | 2 of 2         |
| 2022        | 3                | 15.5 months   | 3 of 3         |
| 2023        | 1                | 33 months     | 1 of 1         |
| 2024        | 1                | 36 months     | 1 of 1         |
| 2025        | 4                | 11.8 months   | 4 of 4         |

## Where the Military Courts Fit

This district contains Creech AFB and Nellis AFB, which appear in the site's court-martial data. Military courts, not this federal court, try courts-martial.

The Commission data counts only people who were convicted and sentenced, so acquittals and dismissals are not part of these numbers.

### How We Counted

Everyone sentenced in federal court in the District of Nevada (U.S. Sentencing Commission district label "Nevada") in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 whose offense type was "Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses" (21). 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.

## 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 Nevada, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-district-of-nevada/) (overview)
- [Federal Firearms Sentences in the District of Nevada, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-firearms-sentences-district-of-nevada/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Drug Trafficking Sentences in the District of Nevada, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-trafficking-sentences-district-of-nevada/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Immigration Offense Sentences in the District of Nevada, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-immigration-sentences-district-of-nevada/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Fraud, Theft, and Embezzlement Sentences in the District of Nevada, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-fraud-theft-embezzlement-sentences-district-of-nevada/) (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.