Latest FSR Issue on post-Booker world
I am pleased to announce that another issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter has gone to press. This latest issue continues the Booker beat — recently covered in issues examining “The Booker Aftershock” and “Is a Booker Fix Needed?” — with a focus on “Defense Perspectives on the Post- Booker World.” (Recall that, as detailed here, another recent FSR issue zeroes in on the state Blakely scene.)
Below I have listed this latest issue’s contents and also made my Editor’s Observations, entitled “Perspectives on the Booker‘s Potential,” available for download. General information about ordering FSR can be found here and the journal can accessed electronically here.
EDITOR’S OBSERVATIONS
- Douglas A. Berman, Perspectives on Booker‘s Potential (Download 182_ed_obs.pdf)
ARTICLES AND RELATED MATERIALS
- Alan DuBois & Anne E. Blanchard, Sentencing Due Process: How Courts Can Use Their Discretion to Make Sentencings More Accurate and Trustworthy
- Timothy Cone, Booker Waivers in Plea Agreements: Are They Permissible?
- Jon M. Sands & Robert J. McWhirter, Federal Sentencing Adventures in Jurisdictional Wonderland: Blakely, Booker, and Special Federal Jurisdiction Issues
- Letter from Federal Defenders to U.S. Sentencing Commission about Federal Sentencing Since United States v. Booker
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
- Panel Discussion from The Constitution Project’s Sentencing Initiative
- Ryan S. King & Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, Sentencing with Discretion: Crack Cocaine Sentencing After Booker
- New Jersey Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing, Report on New Jersey’s Drug Free Zone Crimes & Proposal for Reform