More views from the academy and from the states

Professor Kevin Cole has an op-ed analysis of Blakely here, which concludes:

The Blakely decision is an attack not on severity, but on the general structure that has been employed fruitfully to improve sentencing in countless jurisdictions. There should be a better reason to carry out this attack than the preservation of a jury trial right that can so easily be taken away.

And in states across the nation, from Alaska to Maryland, Blakely is being discussed and assessed.