Lunchtime around the blogsphere

A quick mid-day tour of blogs has led me to a number of items that merit linking, especially because they cover a range of sentencing topics that has recently had me thinking (and blogging):

• Grits for Breakfast has in this post an interesting recent of “recent items on Texas’ probation and sentencing reform front;” the post raises some themes covered in my speculation here about a “new right” on criminal sentencing issues.

• INCourts has this post the status of the Indiana Blakely cases to date; it reinforces my recent post documenting the impact of Blakely in the states.

• TalkLeft here and White Collar Crim Prof Blog here discuss notable recent DOJ transitions, which have me thinking again about what’s going on at DOJ.

• White Collar Crim Prof Blog here and PRACLD Blog here have more coverage and commentary on all the folks speaking out against the Booker fix provisions of H.R. 1528; I have described the basics of that bill here, and lots of commentary on the bill can be found at links here and here and here.

UPDATE: An afternoon tour of the blogsphere suggests adding this items:

• SCOTUSblog here provides details on procedural developments in the death penalty phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui terrorism case.