Another state Supreme Court taking up Blakely

From a lawyer in New Jersey I got the news that the New Jersey Supreme Court has granted certification on the Blakely claims in State v. Abdullah, 372 N.J. Super. 252 (App. Div. 2004).  I reported on Abdullah in this post here back in October, and just this past week noted here the apparent mess, as report by the NJ Attorney General, that Blakely is making of Garden State sentencing.

By my very rough count, there are now perhaps as many as a dozen state supreme courts actively considering a host of Blakely issues (although comprehensively tracking all the issues and the status of the developing state Blakely jurisprudence is, as I suggested here and here, more than I can manage).