Lots of Blakely and Booker stories in the papers

Though I a still catching my breath from another big sentencing week, my ugly bracket has me focused on work rather than basketball this morning.  And I have found a number of interesting Blakely and Booker stories in the papers:

• This article from the Gary Post Tribune explains why the Indiana Supreme Court’s Smylie decision  (basics here, commentary here and here and here), which applied Blakely to Indiana’s sentencing scheme, “has judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers scratching their heads.”

• This article from the Billings Gazette provides background on Booker and details how the post-Booker world is playing out in Montana.

• There interesting coverage of former Connecticut Governor Rowland’s sentence (basics here) to be found in stories from the New York Times and the Hartford Courant.  And the blog Kirby’s Reports has a lot more information and links on the Rowland story.

• The papers have a lot of basic coverage of the Second Circuit’s remand of Martha Stewart’s case for resentencing (see here and here), though the stories do not clearly explain whether Second Circuit ordered resentencing or just gave Judge Cedarbaum discretion to consider resentencing (and I cannot find the Second Circuit’s order on line).