Heading home after a great DC week

Providing the flip-side of this post summarizing earlier developments, as I get ready to head home after an exciting DC week, I have set out below links to recent developments and commentary.  I hope to be back on-line by late Friday afternoon, though the following provides lots of reading in the meantime:

USSC HEARING HIGHLIGHTS AND COMMENTARY

• Highlights from the USSC hearing transcripts
• Departures, variances and defense advocacy
• Topical highlights from Day 2 of the USSC hearings
• The importance of, and another great example of, district court Booker explanations
• The USSC hearings continue…
• Pondering a victim’s role in sentencing
• A few highlights from Day 1 of the USSC hearings

BOOKER CIRCUIT COURT RULINGS AND COMMENTARY

• Time to put out an APB for the 5th Circuit?
• Sorting the pipeline cases
• 11th Circuit speaks on retroactivity
• Another impressive Sixth Circuit Booker episode
• Booker developments in the Second Circuit
• In today’s great episode of how the Sixth Circuit turns…
• Sorting through the Circuit circus