More SCOTUS Booker GVRs

The Supreme Court is back in action today.  Though we did not get either of the sentencing opinions I am eagerly awaiting (background here), we did get a bunch of Booker-inspired GVRs (that is, cert. Granted, judgment Vacated, case Remanded in light of Booker).  As detailed in this list of orders, there were more than 30 Booker-inspired GVRs today.

Of course, the (newly renovated) SCOTUSblog is the place to go for all the Supreme Court action.  Among the High Court’s work today is a 5-4 decision on a double jeopardy claim in Smith v. Massachusetts (syllabus here), which produced unusual coalitions of Justices (and different coalitions than in Blakely, though again Justices Stevens, Scalia, Souter and Thomas are together on the majority opinion which, per Justice Scalia, reverses a state conviction).