Hello, Cleveland!

Later today, I have the honor of giving the The 2005 Friedman & Gilbert Criminal Law Forum lecture at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  As detailed here, my talk is entitled “Conceptualizing Booker: A Two-headed Monster or a Masterful Piece of Judicial Craftsmanship?”  I am about to jump in the car to drive up to the home of the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and thus I will be off-line the rest of today.  Below I have linked some of this exciting week’s posts:

SCOTUS DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Will a Justice Miers continue to be a vocal advocate for better funding of indigent defense?
• A lot of reading to catch up on…
• Nominee Miers’ 1992 discussion of crime and punishment
• Exploring Miers’ work in support of prisoner re-entry
• What will a Justice Harriet Miers mean for sentencing jurisprudence?

DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Strong dissenting words against the death penalty
• Another amazing Penry chapter
• High court death penalty news

BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• More Booker GVRs and lots of cert denieds
• Major Seventh Circuit ruling on reasonableness
• Major 5th Circuit ruling upholding sizable sentences in tax case
• Eighth Circuit continues its busy sentencing ways
• Fifth Circuit opines on its approach to Booker plain error

OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The law and policy of banishment
• Fascinating new paper on community supervision from Vera Institute
• Fantastic NY Times piece on lifers
• More strong NY Times work on lifers
• Third major NY Times piece on lifers