SCOTUS anticipation…
After having disposed of only a “flyspeck” Fourth Amendment case this week (details here), the Supreme Court still has more than a dozen significant criminal justice cases to resolve over the next month. As I explained in this post, many remaining cases will test the new Chief’s ability to achieve the consensus that has developed as the hallmark of the Roberts’ Court to date.
Though for a while I was most excited about the the Recuenco case concerning whether Blakely errors are structural or may be deemed harmless (details in this archive), after arguments I now may be most interested to see what the Court does with the Hill case about challenges to lethal injection protocols (details in this archive).
Of course, there are many other cases that could be big (or little) for the sentencing world depending upon how the Justices frame and resolve the issues before them. I encourage readers to use the comments to note the SCOTUS rulings they are most eagerly anticipating.
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