Gearing up for Booker hearing week

As discussed here earlier this week, tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security has an Oversight Hearing on “The Implications of the Booker/Fanfan Decisions for the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.”   I am hopong that some written testimony might be posted by the Committee at this official hearing page, although I will plan to post in this space any hearing testimony I receive.

Indeed, I have already received, and provided for downloading here, a brief letter to the Sub-Committee from the Ethics Officer Association and a similar letter from legal counsel to various corporate groups, and also the prepared testimony of US Sentencing Commission Chair Judge Ricardo H. Hinojosa.

Download EOALetterUSCongressFeb_10_2005.pdf

Download business_letter_to_house_2.9.05.doc

UPDATE: The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security has posted this press release concerning tomorrow’s hearing, and the USSC website now has as a pdf document Chair Hinojosa’s prepared testimony here.

And speaking of the US Sentencing Commission, I was extremely pleased to see on the USSC website the full Public Hearing Agenda, the circulated list of Topics of Discussion, and even a very personal Sample Hearing Invitation in conjunction with the USSC’s Public Hearing in DC next week. 

There is so much worthy of comment in all these materials, I hope readers might share some general or particular comments concerning all of these Booker events on the near horizon.

UPDATE: An insightful reader has spotlighted to me that Chair Hinojosa’s prepared testimony includes “interesting statistics on post-Booker sentencing: upward sentences 3x more likely than before Booker (thought numbers are so few that it many not mean anything) and downward/outside the range about the same as pre-Booker.”