Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, doesn’t take gun crimes seriously. The result has been more murder, mayhem, and carnage across the nation’s capital.
And now there is more data to prove that point, in the form of the 2023 annual report by the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission.
The Sentencing Commission’s report focuses exclusively on how Graves handled cases last year in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. The report doesn’t cover cases in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where Graves has the option of bringing many cases.
In the interests of transparency and government accountability, we have sent a request under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, to Graves to find out how many cases of a felon in possession of a firearm have been sent by the prosecutor’s office to…
