Spring break and priorities

To prove that I still have my priorities straight, I am soon heading to the airport to start my Spring Break trip down to Florida for a very long weekend of family and fantasy baseball fun.  Saturday is my fantasy baseball league’s draft in Tampa. Recommendations for sleepers and/or great keeper prospects would be greatly appreciated.  Also, hoping to change my recent fortunes (I’ve not won in five years), I am thinking about changing my team name this year.  Ideas for clever new team names would also be welcome. 

Though I expect to be able to get on-line from my hotel, I also expect blogging to be very light through the middle of next week.  For those interested in using this blogging breather to catch up on recent happenings, I have recapped some of March’s Booker and Blakely highlights below.

MAJOR BOOKER FIX DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• The USSC Booker report is back (with corrections)
• Initial reflections on the USSC Booker report
• A viewer’s guide to Booker House hearing
• Following the standard script at House hearing
• Reviewing a week dominated by Booker talk

MAJOR BOOKER DECISIONS AND COMMENTARY

• Judge Presnell on crack/powder disparity
• Eighth Circuit affirms another lengthy sentence for an uncharged murder
• Eighth Circuit reverses another below-guideline sentence BUT also finds a within-guideline sentence unreasonable
• First Circuit speaks, en banc, on post-Booker sentencing and review
• Reasonableness review round-up . . . calling Justice Scalia

MAJOR STATE BLAKELY DEVELOPMENTS AND COMMENTARY

• Ohio applies Blakely and the Booker remedy!
• En banc Pennsylvania court upholds state sentencing scheme over Blakely challenge
• Arizona Supreme Court addresses “admissions” for Apprendi/Blakely purposes
• Minnesota urging SCOTUS to embrace offense-offender Blakely distinction
• Opposition to cert petition urging offense-offender Blakely distinction