Long weekend in review
Counting Friday afternoon as part of the long weekend, there has been a remarkable amount of sentencing activity that might (or might not) make our former Presidents proud. Here are some topical highlights:
SCOTUS DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Mark your SCOTUS calenders
- Exploring possibilities in the SCOTUS state Blakely cases
- What of the lack of re-argument in the SCOTUS capital cases?
BOOKER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Reasonableness review round-up . . . calling Justice Scalia
- A reasonableness double shot from the Fifth Circuit
- Tenth Circuit embraces presumption of reasonableness
- Plain error on plain error in the First Circuit?
DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY
- Schwarzenegger denies clemency in Morales case
- Back to the lethal injection scrum in Morales
- Ninth Circuit rejects efforts to block California execution
- SCOTUS lets California execution go forward
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY