Lots more notable criminal justice action from the Supreme Court, including another summary reversal
The Supreme Court issued a whole bunch of opinions and granted cert on three new cases today, and there is lots of criminal action in this flurry of activity. To get effective summaries and links of all the action, readers should go SCOTUSblog, of course. I hope to get a chance to blog about some of these developments later today.
But sentencing fans will want to start by checking out another notable summary reversal on a Booker-based sentencing appeal, this time in Nelson v. US, No. 08-5657 (S. Ct. Jan. 26, 2009) (available here). Nelson is not quite as big a deal as last week’s Spears decision because in Nelson the Solicitor General’s office admitted error. Nevertheless, as I will highlight in a subsequent post, there is still some useful language in Nelson for other appealing within-guideline sentences.
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