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Shelby County Criminal Court · Division 1

A. Morgan

This page summarizes adjusted racial gaps across qualifying sentencing records. It does not make a finding about motive, wrongdoing, or an individual case.

Qualifying cases
270
Next election
2030
Trend
Not yet established
Disparity Score 7.2 Smaller racial gaps Data strength: Limited
Why this score? Key findings

Black defendants had the longer adjusted incarceration sentences in the comparison with White defendants.

Incarceration 2.1 Smaller racial gaps
Sentence length 7.2 Smaller racial gaps
  • The adjusted incarceration-to-serve gap was under one percentage point in the Black–White comparison.
  • The largest sentence-length difference in the fixture was about 7%.
  • Each racial group was evaluated separately; no combined minority category was used.

Data: 270 qualifying cases · Limited. Synthetic records from December 27, 2017 through December 27, 2025.

Two outcome model

What was measured

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Incarceration

Whether a person was sentenced to incarceration that had to be served.

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Sentence length

How long the incarceration sentence was among custodial cases.

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Similar-case adjustments

Offense severity, prior record, plea or trial, age, and gender are included when supported by the data.

Public case projection

Cases shown in this fixture

Defendant names are not displayed. A case row does not carry an individual disparity judgment.

CaseDispositionSentenceModel use
FX-2025-0001Guilty pleaProbation · 24 monthsIncluded
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