Judge Cassell responds with Wilson II!!

In an encore performance, Judge Paul Cassell, who got the post-Booker world kicked off with a bang with his Wilson decision (basics here, commentary here and here), has jumped back into the on-going sentencing dialogue with another (lengthy) Wilson opinion (which was prompted by the defendant’s motion for reconsideration).  AMazingly, Judge Cassell seems to be able to move even faster than this blog.

In this version of US v. Wilson, Case No. 2:03-CR-00882 PGC (D. Utah Feb. 2, 2005) (available here), Judge Cassell reaffirms his earlier view that the Guidelines should receive “heavy weight” in determining sentences.  The opinion directly responds to rulings in Ranum (basics here, commentary here and here), Myers (discussed here), West (discussed here), and Huerta-Rodriguez (discussed here).  Amazingly, it also contains a few concepts and quotes from the Second Circuit’s decision today in Crosby (discussed here).