A full accounting of “The Supreme Court’s upcoming criminal cases”

In this post a few weeks ago, titled “Starting to gear up for lots of criminal law and sentencing cases during SCOTUS OT’25,” I highlighted that the Supreme Court is already scheduled to hear many criminal law cases, including many sentencing cases, in its upcoming Term.  I now see that Rorly Little in this new SCOTUSblog post, titled “The Supreme Court’s upcoming criminal cases,” provides an even more detailed accounting of wha criminal law fans can anticipate in OT25.  And I especially like the post’s introduction to its full accounting:

The Framers of our Constitution were, of course, all criminals. This is not often said, but it deserves frank recognition. The revolutionary founders were committing violent, treasonous acts against their government, the British monarchy. Announcing independence in 1776, the Framers declared that they had suffered a “long train of abuses” at the hands of the British criminal justice system. Thus much of the Bill of Rights provided for rights and guarantees for people subjected to criminal investigation or prosecution. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments address criminal law directly, and the First, Second, and even the Third address criminal law issues by implication. As Professor David A. Strauss noted long ago, “protections for criminal defendants are arguably the dominant feature of the Bill of Rights.”

With this in mind, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Supreme Court’s next term, which begins on Oct. 6, has so many criminal cases. (Here is the court’s calendar for the term.) By my count, 15 of the 31 cases for which the court has already granted review are criminal law and related. (A full list appears at the end of this post – last month I explained what I count as criminal cases.)