An early week in review

I will be spending much of the workday Friday on the road going to and from a federal law seminar sponsored by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.  (I will be speaking about … one guess … Booker!)  I expect a lot of federal prosecutors in the crowd, and I always learn a lot from the folks actually working on the ground with the system Booker has created.  While I am away, the links below can enable catching up on another exciting sentencing week.

SCOTUS DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Will O’Connor’s replacement shift capital jurisprudence?
• SCOTUS delays Virginia execution

CONGRESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• What should be done about Sensenbrenner’s letter?
• A plain error irony in Sensenbrenner’s letters
• More buzz about Sensenbrenner letters
• More criticisms of Sensenbrenner’s “oversight”
• Senate hearings on new habeas restrictions

DISTRICT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Updated post-Booker data from the USSC
• Making mid-season assessments
• Bernie Ebbers gets 25 years

CIRCUIT COURT BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Eighth Circuit finds huge sentence increase reasonable
• Another round on Levy from the 11th Circuit
• More than a sperm whale’s worth of relevant conduct
• A plug for drug courts in 8th Circuit’s Booker mania

STATE SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Oregon’s Blakely fix now law
• More on recent Oregon sentencing legislation
• State capital punishment developments and debates

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Happy Booker half-birthday!
• All about Apprendi
• FSR issue on Booker heading to press
• Booker and other fine coverage in the Harvard Law Bulletin
• Interesting 4th Circuit ruling on right to counsel