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What actually happens in Virginia criminal court?
We answered it across more than 1.8 million cases filed in 2025 for four published research reports. Now we make the same data layer available — in the form your work needs.
Two products, both shipping now.
Felony drug possession sentences in Dickenson County run 7.6× the statewide above-guideline rate (36.6% vs 4.8%). The kind of outlier that decides cases — and that the four reports + the product layer surface daily.
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Annual Practice Review
Your reduction rate vs statewide. Your peer percentile. Modal pleas in your venues. Officer patterns + prosecutor office context. Delivered as a polished year-in-review PDF within one business day.
- Your record vs 17,560 statewide peers — name variants merged
- Modal plea floors in every venue you work
- Officer patterns from your caseload + prosecutor office context
- VCSC sentencing benchmarks where you appear
- Case-number appendix — every figure verifiable against the public record
Custom Intel Report
Need outcome data on a specific case, venue, officer, or charge? Custom research delivered as a defensible memo.
- Venue + charge × jurisdiction benchmark
- Officer + prosecutor history when known
- Sentencing scenarios + VCSC outlier callouts
- Cited methodology footer
Journalist or researcher? Cited access to the data layer is free: research partnership → · academic? dataset access →
The standing
Same data layer behind four published research reports.
Methodology disclosed on every figure. Cited at virginiacourtfile.com/research.
- Annual Report 2025 — statewide criminal-outcomes baseline
- DWI 2025 YoY — reduction-rate movement, statewide
- Q1 2026 Circuit Court YoY — felony case-flow movement
- Virginia Prosecutorial Accountability 2025 — CA-office posture across Virginia
Virginia criminal cases filed in 2025. Figures as of July 2026. Methodology