It does not say Sealed Indictments Case Study.
It is a Sealed CASES study.
A CASE IS NOT THE SAME AS AN INDICTMENT.
Not sure why people are still not understanding that a sealed docket entry is not necessarily indicative of an indictment.
A poster here talked about how they do it in his jurisdiction which does not make an entry for indictments until the case is unsealed.
He didn’t know how they do it in DC and neither do I.
They're not capable of understanding something that complicated? They don't want their fantasy interrupted by the truth? They're secret plants from DU? Running out of options here...
Did you read the study? Page 17:
“There are 284 sealed indictments filed in 2006”
That was the number of SEALED INDICTMENTS in the entire USA.
magistrate judges handle all types of cases. I am aware mj indicates magistrate judge.
..(2006).We found 1,077 sealed criminal cases among 66,458 criminal cases filed in 2006 (1.6%). Among the sealed cases are 241 grand jury matters and warrant-type applications, which most districts would have given magistrate judge or miscellaneous case numbers instead of criminal case numbers. There were 13 districts with no sealed 2006 criminal cases; 10 of these districts are small, with fewer than six authorized judgeships; four of the districts without sealed civil cases also had no sealed criminal cases.
http://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/sealed-cases.pdf
(4) Sealed Indictment. The magistrate judge to whom an indictment is returned may direct that the indictment be kept secret until the defendant is in custody or has been released pending trial. The clerk must then seal the indictment, and no person may disclose the indictment’s existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_6
“Magistrate judges may empanel grand juries when requested by a District Judge.”
http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/sites/wawd/files/LRMagistrateJudgeRules-Final.pdf
the workload in DC seems to unusually high considering how long Grand Juries are empaneled they likely had to reach to Maqgistrate Judges.