Starting your Blakely day

To provide a running start on what could be a big Blakely day, here’s a Findlaw article about Blakely from Mark H. Allenbaugh, formerly on staff for the USSC and current Co-Chair of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Committee for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mark’s former colleagues will be intrigued to see his prediction that “Blakely may not only mean the end of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines — in their current form, at least — but also the end of the U.S. Sentencing Commission as we know it.”

In other news, we learn from this article in the Tennesseean that legal experts “have more questions than answers about what Blakely … is going to mean for Tennessee.” Of course, that simply means Tennessee is just like every other jurisdiction in the country.