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Resources for those in the Black

The folks at California’s First District Appellate Project have previously provided terrific resources here on Blakely, Booker and Shepard. I now see that the FDAP folks are starting to assemble materials to deal with California Supreme Court’s big Blakely decision last week in Black (basics here, commentary here and here). 

To begin, at this link you can access a memo authored by Jonathan Soglin entitled “Blakely, Booker, and Black. Now What?”  Here’s an account of the memo from its introduction:

This memorandum will provide quick suggestions as to how appellants can procedurally respond to Black in order to preserve Blakely claims. This memorandum will also provide some guidance for triage of cases in order to determine which cases may be best suited for certiorari petitions raising Blakely claims.