Vermont Supreme Court limits retroactivity of its Blakely ruling

As detailed in this AP story, the Vermont Supreme Court “ruled yesterday that a 2005 decision that found Vermont’s laws on sentencing murderers unconstitutional did not apply to a long list of killers sentenced before it was issued.”  This ruling came in State v. White, 2007 VT 113 (Nov. 9, 2007) (available here), and White is an especially interesting read now that the US Supreme Court is considering state retroactivity authority in the Danforth case (discussed here and here and here).