More Blakely news from the field

Two more interesting news reports about the post-Blakely worlds of state and federal sentencing:

• This article from Minnesota discusses a state sentencing in which, because of Blakely, “a separate sentencing hearing was conducted before the jury, and prosecutors successfully argued that [the defendant] should be given the maximum sentence under Minnesota’s dangerous offender law.”

• This article from Iowa discusses another federal sentencing which has been postponed awaiting a decision in Booker and Fanfan.  The article indicates that the defendant’s appointed federal public defender has objected — apparently unsuccessfully — to all of the government’s continuance requests.