SCOTUS refuses to take on Booker plain error

SCOTUSblog and How Appealing are always the places to go for all the information on today’s big day at the Supreme Court.   And, as detailed in this post by Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog, there is already big news for sentencing nuts, as this morning the Supreme Court refused to take up Booker plain error in the Rodriguez case from the 11th Circuit.  This development is surprising because the SG has called for cert. to be granted (details here and also here), and the three-way circuit split on this major Booker pipeline issue really cries out to be resolved by the Supreme Court (background here and here).

More news and decisions will be coming this morning from the Supreme Court, and I will cover any important sentencing angles in later posts.