Off to NYC for Booker seminar

I am about to travel to New York City so I can participate tomorrow in this great Booker seminar sponsored by the New York State Bar Association.  Though I hope to get on-line at times while away, blogging will likely be light through the weekend. 

Readers needing a sentencing fix are encouraged to check out the latest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, which asks “Is a Booker Fix Needed?”.  Also, I have recapped some recent notable recent developments and commentary below.

SCOTUS DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Does Roberts question modern 8th Amendment jurisprudence?
• Roberts’ wrap up
• Assailing the lack of criminal justice questions at the Roberts hearing
• Will the next SCOTUS nominee have any criminal law background?
• Will stare decisis save the A-T prior conviction exception?

BOOKER/BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Is the Booker remedy here to stay?
• Major 9th Circuit ruling on prior conviction exception
• More on consideration of state-federal disparity after Booker
• Invigorating the sentencing process after Booker
• Third Circuit to examine en banc Blakely‘s impact on restitution
• Ninth Circuit officially holds Booker not retroactive