Interesting reports from the front lines

I have received a few interesting responses to my post here this morning, in which I speculated that a vast number of sentencings have been postponed until Booker and Fanfan are decided.  Specifically, I have heard from two “in the know” folks in two distinct districts (in different circuits) who report that the pending Booker and Fanfan have had little impact on the federal docket — that is, sentencing hearings are generally not being delayed in these districts while the rest of us wait for Booker and Fanfan to be resolved. 

Notably, according to these reports, though sentencings are going forward in these two districts, they are going forward in distinctly different ways under distinctly different understandings of the applicable federal sentencing rules and procedures.  These anecdotal reports, of course, just feed my now ravenous desire for post-Blakely federal sentencing data from the USSC.

I highly encourage readers to use the comments or to send me e-mails with additional reports from the field.