Your morning Blakely fix

As he does so well, Howard Bashman at How Appealing has a collection of today’s newspaper articles discussing Blakely here. Though all the articles include interesting Blakely tidbits, especially noteworthy is this article‘s discussion of the plans of US District Chief Judge G. Patrick Murphy (SD Illinois) to deal with Blakely.

For a more intense Blakely experience, let me highly recommend this memo to all readers, even though it is focused on the application of Blakely in California. Because the memo is written by sentencing judges for sentencing judges, its sections covering “Practical Application of Blakely” are especially interesting. And it is almost comical how many times the memo highlights issues that Blakely raises but does not resolve, which leads the authors to forecast that “appellate courts may disagree on the extent of Blakely‘s application in California, even as to whether it applies at all.”