Late-night blog roaming for sentencing items

A late-night roam around the blogsphere has unearthed these notable posts on sentencing topics:

• TalkLeft in this post details that news of the extreme drug sentencing provisions in HR 1528 (some background here) has caught the attention of an editorial writer in Sydney, Australia, who comments that the bill “represents the point where the war on drugs has lost its mind, its pious extremism blind to the damage it will do to a society that respects its neighbours.”

• On the topic of drug sentencing, Gideon at The Connecticut Law Blog has news in this post that the state’s bill to equalize sentences for crack and powdered cocaine is awaiting Governor Rell’s signature.  I previously discussed this bill in this post touting state insights on criminal justice matters.  Gideon also explores in this post the status of mandatory minimum sentences under state law.

• Tom Freeland at Appellate Law & Policy notes a plain error sentencing reversal from the Fifth Circuit in this post, and Happy Fun Lawyer at AL&P has this post about a notable Second Circuit AEDPA ruling (which confirms my sense of the need for a distinct AEDPA blog).