A Booker Pro Bowl
Sentencing action has been fascinating lately — from an ugly clemency spat and lethal injection litigation in the capital arena to a prosecutorial statement against sex offender residency restriction and California’s gendered de-incarceration and a human right hearing on mandatory minimums in the non-capital arena. But the Booker action never disappoints, and there has been a lot of all-star activity on the Booker playing field of late. Here are some topical highlights:
DISTRICT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Judge Adelman provides more post-Booker wisdom
- More strong work by Judge Bataillon on Booker and the sentencing process
- Groundbreaking work in habeas from district courts
CIRCUIT COURT DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Why a “presumption of reasonableness” is troubling
- The ugly look of reasonableness review
- Big Fourth Circuit opinion on reasonableness review
- Sixth Circuit reasonableness bullfrogs jumping around
- Seventh Circuit addresses co-defendant “disparity”
- Ninth Circuit backs away from presumption of reasonableness
- Important Booker twosome from the Tenth Circuit
SENTENCING COMMISSION DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY