More holiday season highlights
After having now watched over and over some great football highlights, I am inspired to assemble here some holiday season sentencing highlights. As detailed below, the end of 2005 did not slow down the sentencing action in many areas:
STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- The Blakely earthquake hits Vermont
- A Blakely threesome from the Oregon Supreme Court
- Reviewing Oregon’s big Blakely rulings
- Blakely at 18 months: a recap of state high court rulings
BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Will it be a happy new year for Jamie Olis?
- Plea deal for Enron CAO Causey
- Sentencing notes on CJ Roberts’ first year-end report
- Recent sentencing rulings in the circuits
- Guideline enhancement data from USSC
- Amicus brief in crack sentencing appeal
DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Too old and sick to die?
- The next high profile California capital case
- Perspective for another death penalty year
- A lesson in the death penalty, Texas style
- “The Eighth Amendment is a jurisprudential train wreck”
OTHER SENTENCING DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- A thorough review of GWB’s pardon work
- The state of shaming punishments
- Making sure crime does not pay (in book profits)
- The importance and power of POs and PSRs
HIGHLIGHTS OF HIGHLIGHTS